Re: what is etymology? (linguistics and biology)


"Jim Heckman" <wnzrfeurpxzna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
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> "John Atkinson" <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > John Atkinson <johnacko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote...
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>> >> Most other languages prefer "Down's". Portuguese "sindrome de Down",

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>> The Finnish and Turkish I gave undoubtedly have the translation of
>> "syndrome" in a non-nominitive case too.
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> No, the Finnish is nominative, but you misspelled it rather badly.
> It should be "Downin oireyhtymä"; the latter word is a compound
> "oire+yhtymä" whose parts mean roughly 'symptom+group' (surprise!).
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> I'm pretty sure Turkish "Down sendromu" is nominative, too. If I'm
> right, the -u is a possessive suffix marking "sendrom" as being
> governed by "Down".

If so, it corresponds to English "Down's syndrome", as opposed to "Down
syndrome", no? So we should move it out of the group of languages whose
normal term doesn't involve a possessive.

So German (and more-often-than-not English) seem to be the only ones left in
that group..

John.


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