etymology of оде яло

[Stephanie Briggs]

Re: "doff":

"Romeo, doff thy name..." = Put off/remove/take away your name?
Interesting!

Stephanie

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2011/1/21 Hugh Olmsted <hugh_olmsted at comcast.net>

> Briefly.
> Yes, it is related to DON (as in donning one's hat): don and doff are
> nothing but old fusions of 'do + on' and 'do + off' .
> The base 'do' is itself a descendent in Germanic (cf. Germn 'tun', Dutch
> 'doen', etc.) of the same Indo-European root *dheH- 'do, make, put' which is
> reflected in our Slavic deti 'do' (with various root extensions – in *dej
> [as here in -dejati and odejalo; and delo / delati; and *dedj- as in
> nadezhda, odezhda, etc.).
> Reflexes of the Indo-European root are widely met throughout indo-European
> descendents, frequently also with root extensions –– as in Lat. facere
> (leading to such Romance descendents as Fr. faire, Sp. hacer, etc.) and
> thence English borrowings in -fact- or -faction (satisfaction, benefaction,
> stupifaction, artifact, etc. etc.) or -fy (satisfy, unify, etc.); and the
> Greek verb tithemi (from reduplicated *dhi-dhemi or the like) and all the
> derivative English borrowings such as thesis, -thesis (anti-, syn-, meta-,
> paren-, epen-, hypo-, etc.), theme, -theca, etc.  The root also shows up in
> Sanscrit, Iranian, Hittite, Armenian, Baltic, Celtic, and other places.
> Lots of company and a worthy pedigree.  We don't need to stretch for
> guesswork.
>
> Odejat' and odejalo are NOT from the Greek.  Odnako.
>
> Breathlessly,
> Hugh Olmsted
>
>
>

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