[Lowlands-l] Is the list alive? Here is a linguist question!

[Lowlands Languages & Cultures]

On 7/18/2017 5:42 AM, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> 10:51 18/07/2017, Lowlands Languages & Cultures:
>> Goedendag allen,
>>
>> 'Pont' is also cognate with older Dutch 'vondel', a small wooden 
>> bridge...as in the surname of famous Dutch writer Joost van den Vondel.
>
> Interessant. Het nog wel courante woord "vlonder" is er mogelijk ook 
> mee verbonden, maar zeker is dat niet:
> http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=WNT&id=M081088&lemma=vlonder 
>
>

*https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pons:*


      Etymology

 From Proto-Indo-European 
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language> /*pónteh₁s 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/p%C3%B3nteh%E2%82%81s>/ 
(“path, road”), from /*pent- 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pent->/ 
(“path”). Cognate with Sanskrit /पथिन् 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D#Sanskrit>/ 
(páthin), Ancient Greek /πόντος 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek>/ 
(póntos), Old Armenian /հուն 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%B0%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6#Old_Armenian>/ 
(hun, “riverbed”), and Old English /findan 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/findan#Old_English>/ (English /find 
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/find#English>/).

Of interest to me as an occasional student of Nishnaabemowin is the 
connection between pons and findan.  This is exactly what we find in the 
verb mkaan to find, eg. ka mkaan miikaanhs "you will find a path."

-- 
Edwin Alexander



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