LL-L "Etymology" 2005.02.23 (04) [E]

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From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.02.23 (01) [E]


James Campbell wrote:
"Relatedly, is it true that Scottish kids are taught at school how to write
a 'recount', that is, an account of something that happened? I remember
stumbling across this in a schools programme years ago and puzzling over
it."

Not just Scottish children. To _recount_ (verb) something is still very
current in most England Englishes, and I remember being asked to write a
_recount_ (noun) of holidays and the like. (Although in Nottingham English
we say _rikaan_, and only for the noun because it is a 'learned' term.)

Go raibh maith agat

Criostóir.

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

A connection between "counting" (= "reckoning") and "telling" (= "relating,"
"reporting") appears to be indeed confined to Germanic and Romance.

Semantically it makes sense to me if I think of telling (stories) as an
enumeration of events ("First this happened, then that happened, ...").

However, I'd expect this to apply to Celtic too, given its relatively close
relationship to Romance.  But this seems to be not so.

It does, however, apply sporadically in Baltic, but apparently not in its
closest relatives Slavonic and Greek.

Latvian (*/skait-/):
uzskaitīt 'enumerate'
skaitāms 'countable'
neskaitāms 'countless'
skaitīt, saskaitīt 'to tell', 'to report'
ataskaita 'report'

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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