Re: nomothete

And Rosta <a.rosta@V...> wrote:

>Is there some kind of abstruse pun going on, between nomothete and
>onomatothete? Are these words for "law" and "name" cognate? And are
>Latin lex/legis (law) and Gk lexis/legein (words, speech, speak)
[forgive me if in my haste my inflections err ...] cognate?

PIE root nem- (to assign, allot, take) > O-grade form *nom-, in Greek
nomos (law), giving English words, e.g., antinomy, astronomy,
binomial, et al.

PIE root nomen (nomn, onomn) (name) > Greek onoma (name), giving
English words, e.g., onomatopeia, anonymous, et al.

These two are, thus, not cognate.

PIE root leg- (to collect, with derivatives meaning to speak) > in
Greek legein (to gather, speak), giving English words, e.g.,
dyslexia, dialect, et al.

lengthened grade form le-g > possibly in Latin lex (law), giving
English words, e.g., legal, et al.

These two are cognate.

Charlie