[gothic-l] Reconstructing "Breath"

[Manuel Gutierrez Algaba]

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, M. Carver wrote:
> So,
> we have two or three possibilities:
>
> e'thms
> andi / andw
>
> Koebler already has *andi < Gmc. *andan < PIE *an at - meaning "ghost", which
> is not quite the realm of denotation pursued here (we look for "breath"),
> though the concepts of breath and spirit are closely linked in etymologies
> often. I would not presume to extend the meaning to andi so far nor create
> andw for such a purpose in view of alternatives. Yet perhaps, when one
> translates the words "breath of life", one could be persuaded to use one
> word such as *andi or ahma as substitute for the entire phrase.

Breath sounds very like "breeze", perhaps both come from
the very same  altered form.

BTW, in Spanish we have the word :"alma", somehow "ahma" seems
closer to it  than  the Latin "anima".

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Regards/Saludos
Manolo
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