Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)

Sorry for a typo. Ballettänzerin (ballet dancer) is now
written with a triple t, Balletttänzerin

Franz Gnaedinger wrote:
> Joachim Pense wrote:
>
> > Fuß
> > old meaning: leg
> > new meaning: foot
>
> I boycott German since the Schreibreform. Poor
> Ballettänzerin who must stumble over her disgracious
> club foottt. If Tollpatsch why not also Schpatziergang
> and Schpeckdackel? Before: Aufwand aufwenden
> aufwendig Aufwendung; now: Aufwand aufwenden
> aufwändig (but pronounced aufwendig) Aufwendung.
> If a must become ä, why not also aufwänden?
> Schprache schprächen, Schtand Schtänder
> schtändig schtänden, Gang gängig gängen,
> Lage lägen Lägeschtuhl, Krabbe Kräbbs,
> mare Määr (Adria) Määär (Pacific). And so on.
> I sent them five pages with further improvements
> in their sense: arterioscleortic increase of
> consonants, ä as ä can, and of coarse
> Vielologe for a German philologist of plenty logic.
>
> As I boycott German I will only consider one of
> your examples, the one above that I can also
> handle in ancient Greek, where it has even more
> meanings. Hope I remember them all:
>
> POUS - foot (also as a measure), leg, hoof, claw;
> course, walk; pod (of a ship), steering rope;
> metric foot.
>
> >From these meanings you can easily guess the
> central meaning, or the meme behind the word:
> a functional extension, its function, and traces
> left by it.
>
> Regards Franz Gnaedinger www.seshat.ch

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