LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 30.DEC.2000 (01) [D/E]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Etymology

Frans Vermeulen wrote, referring to "maat" ( or "mat" or "maet"):

>zelfs in de geromaniseerde woordconstructies kan men er niet
onderuit: mathematisch, materie, enz.. <

Just to save everybody else the trouble of looking these words up in an
etymological dictionary, the first "mat(h)" in "mathematics" is from a root

meaning something like E. "mind" (which retains the "n" lost in some forms
of the root in Greek) and the second "mat" arises coincidentally from the
addition of a genitive ending to "mathema". "Materie" (E. "material")
ultimately derives from L. "mater" ("mother") - the source of something.

John Feather johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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