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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">In Old Persian</span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> (500 BCE)</span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt">, there is the verbal </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">root </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">dā- "give; make, create", </span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt">actually </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">a
(phonetic) amalgamation of the two Indo-European</span><span style=" font-size:10pt"> root</span><span style=" font-size:10pt">s *dō- "give" and *dhē- "put". (there is
a semantical parallel in Latin d</span><span style=" font-size:10pt">a-</span><span style=" font-size:10pt">re „give“ and f</span>
<span style=" font-size:10pt">a-</span><span style=" font-size:10pt">cere „do“, but Ancient Greek di-dō-mi „give“
and ti-thē-mi „put“ have preserved the IE. meanings)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Both meanings continued to be dinstinguishable in Middle Persian (300-600 CE) </span></font>
<font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">dā</span><span style=" font-size:10pt">dan "give;
create" (although I think there was a clear preponderance of "give"), but in New Persian
(1000-), </span><span style=" font-size:10pt">dā</span><span style=" font-size:10pt">dan means only "give".</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Ludwig Paul</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Am 16 Feb 2015 um 15:14 hat David Gil geschrieben:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Dear all,</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Does anybody know of languages in which 'give' and 'do'/'make' are expressed with the same or </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> related words? Or of cases in which forms expressing one of these two meanings are historically </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> derived from forms expressing the other meaning?</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> Thanks,</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#7f0000" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">> David</span></font></div>
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