Re: Weekly Vocab 29
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 17, 2003, 19:50 |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 13:43:35 -0500, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...>
wrote:
> AHD gives the PIE etymological source of English "deed", as dheE "to set,
> put", more specifically dhe:ti "thing laid down or done, law, deed". Also
> dhe:to "set down, created". Also dho:mo "doom, judgement". Also Gothic
> do:ms "judgement". Also English deem from Old English de:man "to judge"
> from Germanic "do:mjan" from Germanic "do:maz". Also dhEs which gives
> Latin fa:s "divine law, right".
>
And, of course, there's Latin iu:s "law", Skt yo's "welfare", Av. yaoz^da:
"purify", which point to a PIE root ieus (> my guess at pseudo-Germanic
*j(i)ur-), with a meaning somewhere near "goodness, morality". Also, PIE
dik' "to show, indicate, express", whence Gk di'ke: "justice" (> my guess
at pseudo-Germanic *dih-/dejh-).
Paul