Re: If you call me crazy again...
| From: | Muke Tever <alrivera@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 24, 2001, 13:19 |
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From: "Daniel Andreasson" <rymddaniel@...>
>Where did you get the _e_ 'if' from? And how did
>you get _eil_ 'other'? I took C. _neun_ from Q.
>_neuna_ 'second' since there already is another
>word for 'second' in Quenya. (In Swedish, 'other'
>and 'second' is actually the same word.)
Apparently "other" = "other of two" = "second" is a common Indo-European ..
uh, metaphor? semanteme?
Like Old English "óðer" (saith OED), Latin "alter", Greek "héteros" (saith
Perseus).
[Hadwan has /Altsi:r/ for 'second' and 'other'.]
*Muke!
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