knowing

Peter &/or Graham petegray at btinternet.com
Sun Apr 25 08:12:14 UTC 1999


Further to the discussion on the gneh3 root ("to know"), I have a daft
question:

The formation *gneh3-mn would mean, if it existed, that by which we know
something - i.e. its name.   But in fact we find *h3neh3-mn.   Does anyone
have any bright ideas for connecting the attested word for "name" with the
root "to know"?

Peter



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