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Re: Reply to Sarah's condensed message

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Monday, January 13, 2003, 11:58
Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Or just coincidence, perhaps from the collapse of several phonemes. > Maybe the first three were Zhos- and the last one was Jos- (assuming > there's no /dZ/ in the modern language)
English "cleave" = split and "cleave" = adhere to, as in "I will cleave to thee, Dunadan" (what Arwen says in the book) are the result of a similar collapse. Likewise "sound" < sonus and "sound" < sanus (the word "sound" applied to an arm of the sea, as in Long Island Sound, is native). -- Winter: MIT, John Cowan Keio, INRIA, jcowan@reutershealth.com Issue lots of Drafts. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan So much more to understand! http://www.reutershealth.com Might simplicity return? (A "tanka", or extended haiku)