Re: Scots.
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 19, 2008, 10:13 |
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 01:25:47 -0500, Eric Christopherson wrote:
>Is the word <sore(ly)> meaning "very" the same word as the word
><sore> having to do with pain? I've always perceived it to be --
>since the kinds of adjectives normally used for <sore> are ones where
>you can easily imagine a semantic shift from "so much that one feels
>pain" to just "much" -- but now that I hear that it's related to
>German <sehr> I wonder. Does/did <sehr> (or related words) also have
>shades of meaning having to do with pain?
It is conservated mostly in the word "unversehrt" 'unscathed', which is from
a rather outdated verb "versehren" 'injure'. Some dialects are said to
retain the word "sehr" as an adjective with the same meaning as in English.
See also:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=sore
--
grüess
mach
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