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From: heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk <heatherrendall at tiscali.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.08.14 (02) [E]

Ron/Reinhard wrote : I have this sneaking suspicion that "snob" in the
modern sense is either strongly influenced by or directly derived from
"snob" used in the mentioned Cambridge University jargon, where students
looked down upon ordinary townspeople of Cambridge, where even the greenest
freshman, who was a "snob" himself just recently, thought he was way above
ordinary folk -- a "label turned around", so to speak.



I had always understood that 'snob' in this sense came from the Oxbridge
entry books where your rank was entered beside your name: duke: marquis:
earl: lord: Bart etc etc   If you had no title, you were entered as such  "
s. nob" = sine nobile  without title.



Or....?????



Heather



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From: Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell <kevin.caldwell1963 at verizon.net>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.08.14 (02) [E]



I wonder if French "aussi" (also) is connected.  And, as someone else
already asked, could the Russian conjunction "a" (and, but) be as well?

Kevin Caldwell



From: Marcel Bas <marcelbas at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.08.14 (01) [E]


Hallo Reinhard,


Je schreef:

"According to Pokorny, *ac* etc. goes back to Indo-European **aĝ-* 'to
move', 'to swing', 'to drive', 'to lead'. Sounds weird, doesn't it? What is
supposed to be the semantic connection?"

I'm not sure. But consider an analogous development:

The Indo-European root *eug- which soon became *aug-. Its definition is 'to
increase'. You can find it in a verb like 'augment', but also in  words like
'auxiliary' and Germanic cognates such as D. *ook*, G. *auch, *F. *ek* and
E. *eke, *'also' (hence the verb *to eke*).

Best regards,

Marcel.
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