Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 5, 2003, 9:21 |
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En réponse à John Cowan <cowan@...>:
>
> 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-.
>
Nice. At least for once my intuition is not completely off ;)))) .
> Your character names in N- all sound like indefinite negatives: nobody,
> nowhere,
> nothing, etc. in some unrecorded IE language.
>
LOL! I hadn't thought about that ;))) . Highly unlikely for aliens from another
galaxy, but the idea is funny ;))) (and as being nobodies, well it'll prove to
be right in some later episode ;)))) ).
Christophe.
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