Handfuls of Unrelated Forms

[proto-language]

Dear IEists:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Georg" <Georg-Bonn at t-online.de>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 3:27 AM

> Someone called "Proto-Language" wrote:

>> One of the reasons linguistics makes such little progress is that so-called
>> "experts" are permitted tacitly by their indulgent colleagues to propose
>> etymologies as totally naif as <ios>, 'arrow', from <eimi>, 'go through'.

[Some who used to go by Ralf-Stefan before he began to assume airs with the
title Dr., wrote]

> the basic meaning of /eimi/ is "to go to or into"

[PCR]

I doubt very sincerely whether YOU have more Greek than Liddell or Scott even
though we know --- ad nauseum --- that you have a PhD.

On page 198 of the abridged L&S Greek-English Lexicon, *they* say, the basic
meaning of /eimi'/ is "to go"; and I greatly prefer their opinion on matters
Greek to yours.

The *second* example of its usage there is "khroo`s ei'sato, IT WENT THROUGH
the skin". This certainly establishes the meaning "go through", which, you
might have noticed if you had been following the thread, I quoted from an
earlier post; I did not propose "go through" though I recognized its validity.
And several other usages, like "to fly", might be similarly interpreted.

[DR. STEFAN]

> One of the reasons linguistics makes such little progress is that people with
> so little Greek are permitted to voice their irrelevant opinion in specialist
> fora.  (FYI: Greek is the IE language with those funny letters.)

[PCR]

Well, we listened patiently to your irrelevant opinions about Uralo-Eskimo.

[ Moderator's note:
  The reference is to a very interesting group of postings on the Nostratic
  mailing list, irrelevant to this newsgroup.

  It's been a few months since the last slanging match between these gentlemen.
  I am calling a halt here and now.
  --rma ]

Pat

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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/2803/proto-religion/indexR.html "Veit ec
at ec hecc, vindgá meiði a netr allar nío, geiri vndaþr . . . a þeim
meiþi, er mangi veit, hvers hann af rótom renn." (Hávamál 138)