On Mar 12, 2005, at 7:06 PM, off_world_beings wrote: > What about the word, 'word'?
I have a subscription to the OED and it says: [OE. word str. n. = OFris., OS. word, MDu. wort (Du. woord), OHG., MHG., G. wort, ON. or To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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(Sw., Da. ord), Goth. waurd:
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OTeut. *wurdom:
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pre-Teut. *wrdho-; cf. Lith. va
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das name, Lett. wàrds word, forename, OPruss. wirds word, OIr. fordat ‘inquiunt’.Indo-Eur. werdh- is generally taken to be a deriv. of wer-, wer
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speaker, L. verbum word, Skr. vrat�m command, law, etc.]
So the Sanskrit precursor of "word" would be "vratam".
