[998] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: verbs in compounds (was: Re: epithets (taHqeq))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 16 22:53:03 1993
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From: laibow@brick.purchase.edu (The Songbringer -- Marnen to the common fol
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 93 21:49:19 EDT
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Ken_Beesley.PARC@xerox.com says:
[quote of Eric Koske deleted]
: Off the top of my head, "window" was historically a "windwe" or wind-way, a
: path or "way" for the wind to pass.
I'd been told that "window" originally meant "wind's eye," presumably an eye
for the wind to come through.
[...]
: Phonetically, at least, similar things happened to the Middle English sparwe
: (sparrow) and arwe (arrow). The last time I read Chaucer, I found a few
: others, but they have since slipped my mind.
I believe this also obtains with "g" instead of "w" (e. g. Ger Morgen > E
morrow, Ger Sorge > E sorrow, etc.), but maybe the "g" is a later development
of the "w" (or vice versa).
: Ken Beesley
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