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Re: nomothete

From:caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...>
Date:Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 3:34
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