Passivity as a transition (raising dust)

[Jim Rader]

Well, my "any other Greek etymological dictionary" may have been
unwarranted sarcasm, but my point is that guessing about derivational
and etymological relationships without acknowledging the literature is
going to be a waste of your own time in a field like Greek, where
a long tradition of scholarship exists.  I'm sorry if you don't have
access to a library, but I'm afraid there's not much I can do about
that.   At any rate, I've looked at Boisacq, Hoffman, Frisk, and
Chantraine, as well as Pokorny, and the thinking is uniform.
Greek <konis> is compared with Latin <cinis>, from both of which a
base <*kenis-> on an Indo-European level may be reconstructable.
Pokorny glosses <*ken-> with "sich muehen, eifrig streben, sich
sputen," and Latin <co:nor> is compared.

Jim Rader

> In a message dated 8/8/99 1:22:04 AM, jrader at m-w.com wrote:

> <<I think you've lumped together two unrelated etyma here. See the
> articles on <diakonos>, <enkoneo:>, and <konis> in Chantraine,
> _Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque_ (or any other Greek
> etymological dictionary, for that matter).>>

> I don't have Chantraine, but I see in my notes:

[ moderator snip ]

> But since you seem to have access to ALL the other Greek etymological
> dictionaries, perhaps you can give us a survey?

> Regards, Steve Long