Re: 'together vs. to gather'

--- Trebor Jung <treborjung@...> wrote:
> Merhaba!
>
> The words 'together' and 'to gather' are an
> interesting pair of look-alikes.
They are cognates (back to IE *ghedh-). Together
in OE is tôgaeder; gather is gad(e)rian.

> They seem to have similar meanings, and I was
> wondering are they really
> related? Was there a vowel shift (and a
> ssquishing-together of 'to'
> and 'gather') to get 'together'? Are there any
> langs where 'to gather' is a
> verbal derivation from 'together', and/or
> 'together' is an adjectival
> derivation from 'to gather'?
Yeah. In Spanish we have conjugar (verb) and
conjunto (adjective); meaning basically
gather/together. IE languages are good at having
close roots in both substantive and verb, some
being deverbal nouns others being denominative
verbs.

Padraic.


>
> --Trebor

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