Re: CHAT: Opperlands
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| Date: | Thursday, May 13, 1999, 8:27 |
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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 13/05/99 09:00:39 , vous avez =E9crit :
<< tonen ... vgl. mnd. /t=F4nen/, mhd. /zounen/, /z=F4nen/, me. /taunen/...; =
staat
naast mnl. /t=F4ghen/, os. /t=F4gian/, ohg /zougen/, waarvan de herkomst
duidelijk wordt door got. /ataugjan/. >>
That's very interesting. I don't know anything about etymology and so until=20
now I fancied that Ger. "zeigen" and Eng. "tug" came from a kind of=20
"ziehen-zug" root like "to pull, to draw" or something like that. Hence my=20
mistake that "tonen" came from that root too. Now I can see that ancient=20
words are nicely figurative.
Mathias