Comments on: An Etymological Headache http://blog.oup.com/2012/01/etymological-headache-origin-word-ache/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: OUPblog » Blog Archive » Monthly Gleanings: January 2012 http://blog.oup.com/2012/01/etymological-headache-origin-word-ache/#comment-248230 OUPblog » Blog Archive » Monthly Gleanings: January 2012 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:25:57 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=20743#comment-248230 [...] Ache and Its Remote Past. The question was why I did not make use of Raimo Anttila’s root *ag-. That I have read and used Anttila’s article is obvious, for how else would I have known the Finnish words cited in the post? The root Anttila reconstructed is not original, but more important is that I in general treat Indo-European roots and extensions, which so many researchers take for granted, with great caution. As follows from my post, I doubt that ache had an Indo-European ancestor in the sense in which father or one had them. Some migratory word (Wanderwort) or its sound symbolic analog may have existed, but its history is obscure. Even Holthausen, who slavishly followed Walde-Pokorny in his Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, did without such a root. I am not a fan of his dictionaries, but in this case he seems to have acted wisely. [...] [...] Ache and Its Remote Past. The question was why I did not make use of Raimo Anttila’s root *ag-. That I have read and used Anttila’s article is obvious, for how else would I have known the Finnish words cited in the post? The root Anttila reconstructed is not original, but more important is that I in general treat Indo-European roots and extensions, which so many researchers take for granted, with great caution. As follows from my post, I doubt that ache had an Indo-European ancestor in the sense in which father or one had them. Some migratory word (Wanderwort) or its sound symbolic analog may have existed, but its history is obscure. Even Holthausen, who slavishly followed Walde-Pokorny in his Altenglisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, did without such a root. I am not a fan of his dictionaries, but in this case he seems to have acted wisely. [...]

]]> By: Roland Schuhmann http://blog.oup.com/2012/01/etymological-headache-origin-word-ache/#comment-247594 Roland Schuhmann Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:08:43 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=20743#comment-247594 Is there a specific reason why you didn't mention Raimo Anttila, Greek and Indo-European etymology in action: proto-Indo-European *aģ-, pp. 217ff. (pgerm. *ak-ja- : gr. azê)? Best wishes (and a bit late: a Happy New Year)! Is there a specific reason why you didn’t mention Raimo Anttila, Greek and Indo-European etymology in action: proto-Indo-European *aģ-, pp. 217ff. (pgerm. *ak-ja- : gr. azê)?

Best wishes (and a bit late: a Happy New Year)!

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