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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/18/2017 5:42 AM, Ruud Harmsen
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:mailman.1701.1500371006.1585.lowlands-l@listserv.linguistlist.org">10:51
18/07/2017, Lowlands Languages & Cultures:
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<blockquote type="cite">Goedendag allen,
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'Pont' is also cognate with older Dutch 'vondel', a small wooden
bridge...as in the surname of famous Dutch writer Joost van den
Vondel.
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Interessant. Het nog wel courante woord "vlonder" is er mogelijk
ook mee verbonden, maar zeker is dat niet:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=WNT&id=M081088&lemma=vlonder">http://gtb.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article&wdb=WNT&id=M081088&lemma=vlonder</a>
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<b><font color="#660000"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pons">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pons</a>:</font></b><span
class="mw-headline" id="Etymology_2"><br>
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<h3><span class="mw-headline" id="Etymology_2">Etymology</span></h3>
From <span class="etyl"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language"
class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a></span>
<i class="Latinx mention" lang="ine-pro"><a
href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/p%C3%B3nteh%E2%82%81s"
title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pónteh₁s">*pónteh₁s</a></i>
<span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span
class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span
class="mention-gloss">path, road</span><span
class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span
class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, from <i
class="Latinx mention" lang="ine-pro"><a
href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pent-"
title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/pent-">*pent-</a></i>
<span class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">(</span><span
class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span
class="mention-gloss">path</span><span
class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span
class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>. Cognate
with Sanskrit <i class="Deva mention" lang="sa"><a
href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%A5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D#Sanskrit"
title="पथिन्">पथिन्</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren
annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-tr tr Latn"
lang="sa-Latn">páthin</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren
annotation-paren">)</span>, Ancient Greek <i class="polytonic
mention" lang="grc"><a
href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CF%80%CF%8C%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek"
title="πόντος">πόντος</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren
annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-tr tr Latn"
lang="grc-Latn">póntos</span><span class="mention-gloss-paren
annotation-paren">)</span>, Old Armenian <i class="Armn mention"
lang="xcl"><a
href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D5%B0%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B6#Old_Armenian"
title="հուն">հուն</a></i> <span class="mention-gloss-paren
annotation-paren">(</span><span class="mention-tr tr Latn"
lang="xcl-Latn">hun</span>, <span
class="mention-gloss-double-quote">“</span><span
class="mention-gloss">riverbed</span><span
class="mention-gloss-double-quote">”</span><span
class="mention-gloss-paren annotation-paren">)</span>, and Old
English <i class="Latinx mention" lang="ang"><a
href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/findan#Old_English"
title="findan">findan</a></i> (English <i class="Latn mention"
lang="en"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/find#English"
title="find">find</a></i>).<br>
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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."<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Edwin Alexander</pre>
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