Re: 2 Re Word order (Was: Conlangs of mischief

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 14:39:37 EDT, David Peterson <ThatBlueCat@...> wrote:
> Rodlox wrote:
>
> <<>Nevertheless, I'd like to see more explanation for how compound words
> are formed, for example. I think part of the reason it looks so odd is
> because there's little or no description of how this process actually
> works
> at-   =  To go; a year
> au-   =  To perceive
> attau =  to perceive {understand} a year {calendrical signifigance}>>
>
> This still doesn't make any sense to me, I'm afraid.   First of all, if you
> have one word, and one definition is "to go", and the other definition is "a
> year", then what you have is two different words that have the same sound, like
> "bank (of a river)" and "bank (that you keep your money in)".   As such, they
> should be listed separately.
Actually this *at- and *au- appear to be their homophonous Indoeuropean roots. *at- is
indeed often glossed with both "go" and "year" ("year" here to be understood as
going through the cycle of seasons, I suppose). The Latin reflex is _annus_ (<
*at-no-).


	*Muke!
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