Re: Re : Re: Re : Case, Innateness, Almost Allnoun, NGL.
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 6, 1999, 18:54 |
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Charles wrote:
> Is the word for "study" somehow related to "pupil", "teach", "learn",
> or "know"?
Learn, yes. Pyas=FAn is an independent verb meaning "learn, study".=20
Actually, it's probably not a case of a suffix pyas=FAn, but rather
incorporating the object of study into the verb. The only problem with
that analysis is that incorporation is usually only with instrumentals,
and the object of study isn't in the instrumental case.
--=20
"[H]e axed after eggys: And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not
speke no Frenshe ... And then at last a nother sayd that he woulde haue
hadde eyren: then the goode wyf sayd that she vnderstood hym wel." --
William Caxton
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