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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.08.14 (02) [E]</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ron/Reinhard wrote : I have this sneaking suspicion that
"snob" in the modern sense is either strongly influenced by or
directly derived from "snob" used in the mentioned Cambridge
University jargon, where students looked down upon ordinary townspeople of
Cambridge, where even the greenest freshman, who was a "snob" himself
just recently, thought he was way above ordinary folk -- a "label turned
around", so to speak.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I had always understood that 'snob' in this sense came from
the Oxbridge entry books where your rank was entered beside your name: duke:
marquis: earl: lord: Bart etc etc If you had no title, you were
entered as such " s. nob" = sine nobile without title.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Or....?????</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heather</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.08.14 (02) [E]</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I wonder if French "aussi" (also) is
connected. And, as someone else already asked, could the Russian
conjunction "a" (and, but) be as well?</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Kevin Caldwell</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Marcel Bas</span> <<a href="mailto:marcelbas@gmail.com" target="_blank">marcelbas@gmail.com</a>> <br>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.08.14 (01) [E]</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hallo
Reinhard,</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Je
schreef:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">"According
to Pokorny, <i>ac</i> etc. goes back to Indo-European *<i>aĝ-</i> 'to move',
'to swing', 'to drive', 'to lead'. Sounds weird, doesn't it? What is supposed
to be the semantic connection?"</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">I'm not
sure. But consider an analogous development:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The
Indo-European root *eug- which soon became *aug-. Its definition is 'to
increase'. You can find it in a verb like 'augment', but also in
words like 'auxiliary' and Germanic cognates such as D. <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">ook</span></i>, G. <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">auch, </span></i>F. <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">ek</span></i> and
E. <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">eke, </span></i>'also' (hence the
verb <i><span style="font-family: Arial;">to eke</span></i>). </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Best
regards,</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Marcel.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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