Re: CHAT: Opperlands

On Wed, 12 May 1999 23:45:38 +0100 Irina Rempt <ira@...>
writes:
>On Wed, 12 May 1999, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>> My little Danish etymological dictionary says "Du. toonen, akin to
>> Gothic at-augjan". But how did it get an <n> in the stem?
>My (or rather my parents', which I have inherited) little Dutch
>etymological dictionary is currently in a crate that I expect in the
>last week of May, but I'll look it up for you when it arrives.
>
>   Irina
Talking about etymology....
today i was looking in vain through all the huge dictionaries in my
school library for the word "stychic", which i finally found out from
someone, not from a dictionary.  It's a fancy philosophical/ideological
way of saying "inevitable".  But, while i was looking in the
dictionaries, i always noticed the word "stygian" right next to where
"stychic" should have been.  And i found out that the name of my
ElendorMUSH character inspiration for all of Rokbeigalm-tzat, "Stygius",
is a real word :)  - it's Latin for "Stygian".  And i always thought that
putting the -us at the end made it more noun-like... :)  Oh, and even
though "stygian" is pronounced [stIdZi@n], "Stygius" is [stajgij@s] in
English, [stajgijus] in Rokbeigalmki, where it's more properly written
_Stiigiyus_.

Hmm...does anyone happen to know why _stygius_ has a {y} when the Greek
word it comes from, _stugios_, has a {u}?


-Stephen (Styg)
 _nii mlav khalu tazao ga'uhzoi-aderet ta'tora-a._

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