Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 14:39:07 -0500 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
> Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
> > Nope, but Peter found it already. The influence was the French
> word "dryade",
> > which comes from Greek IIRC. And I wonder if it's not realted
> through PIE with
> > the word "druid". Whaddya think?
>
> Plinius thought so: in his _Natural History_, he said that "druid"
> was Greek
> for "oak-priest".  There is nothing improbable in it.  Latin got
> "druidus" from
> Gaulish, and the Irish "drui" is obviously related.
>
> If true, then English "tree" < OE "tre:ow" is indeed connected, with
> a
> Grimm's Law shift of d- > t-.
and these are all from the PIE root *deru.

> John Cowan
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