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Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

From:Robert B Wilson <han_solo55@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 2:26
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
Robert Wilson han_solo55@juno.com fanai kabl dala ninl.