Re: Two different opposites (again)

Hi!

Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> writes:
> Henrik Theiling wrote:
> > The two pairs are still different: 'teach' is the causative of
> > 'learn'.  But 'sell' is not the causative of 'buy', but more a pair
> > like 'give' - 'take'.  It's more balanced in who causes what.
> >
> In some Indonesian and/or Philippine languages (I forget which) buy and sell
> use the same base.  Another common relation: borrow -- lend, as Indo.
> /pinjam/ meminjam 'borrow from', meminjami ~meminjamkan 'lend out, loan'.
Yes, I did not want to say they were unrelated, just that they are of
a different kind.  German also uses the same root:

buy:   kaufen
sell:  verkaufen

Mandarin has mai3 vs. mai4.

lend:   leihen/ausleihen
        'Ich hab mir das Buch (aus)geliehen.'
        'Ich hab das Buch geliehen.'


borrow: leihen/ausleihen (non-reflexive, with dative object)
        'Ich hab dir das Buch (aus)geliehen.'

        verleihen        (without dative obj.)
        'Ich hab das Buch verliehen.'


> Again Indonesian:  /ajar/ belajar 'study, learn', mengajar 'teach (a
> subject)', mengajari 'to train s.o.', mengajarkan 'to teach s.o. s.t.'
> (probably as in 'to teach the students French')
Ah.  Interesting! :-)

**HEnrik