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Re: 'together vs. to gather'

From:Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
Date:Saturday, January 17, 2004, 1:39
--- 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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