Re: OT: an axe to grind
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 10, 2006, 3:10 |
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On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 18:24:17 -0500, Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
wrote:
> Latin "ascia" gives:
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> Italian: ascia, accetta(?)
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> and is connected to the Greek "axi:ne:" and the
> English "axe". I'm thinking that Galician "anciño"
> and Portuguese "enxó" might go here, too.
Those latter two might be related to PIE *nsi-, which canonically means
"sword", but if one root can become the word for both "salmon" and "ten
thousand", I suspect the semantic chasm between "sword" to "axe" would not
be too large to bridge.
Paul
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