Latin and Slavonic for `moon'

[Vidhyanath Rao]

[ Moderator's comment:
>  No.  There are two different roots here, *gno:- = *gn{e/o}H_3 "know" and
>  *genH_1 "beget, give birth".  The verbal adjective collapses due to sound
>  change in Greek, but the very data you provide show the difference.  Compare
>  Latin (g)no:sco: vs. genus, Skt. jn~a:-ta- "known" vs. ja:-ta- "born".
>  --rma ]

We can't tell gneH1 from gneH3 in Sanskrit, but jn~a:ti ``relative'' occurs
in RV 7.55.5 (AV-like charm) and three times in Mandala 10. [Otherwise, all
erivatives of jan- are jan(i)- < genH or ja: < gnH.]

I also find the semantics of gneH3/gno: curious. It is presumably an
eventive and not a stative like ``know'' (which is the function of woide).
Sanskrit has a nasal present which is generally said to reflect a process,
Latin uses -ske/o and Greek reduplication + -ske/o which are generally taken
to represent iteration/duration. What was the original meaning?

-Nath

[ Moderator's response:
  The Greek and Latin reflexes seem to mean "come to know, learn"; a durative
  would then mean "know by having learned", an iterative "get to know".  In
  Latin, -sco- is an inchoative as often as an iterative, so "begin to learn,
  start to know".

  And I should have checked Grassmann for _jn~a:-_ forms from *genH_1, but it's
  packed for a few weeks until we move into the new house.
  --rma ]