Re: What a root of 'spirit',i felt the word interesting.
- From: Colin Fine <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:47:10 +0000
dabbog@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
thx a lot.so in breath u can take evil spirit or hole spirit.Think also of 'inspiration', from the same source.
is there any relation with 'ghost' from 'spirit'?
tia.
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<dabbog@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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in fact no power powerer than it.starving,battle,torture,nothing canFrom Old French "espirit", from Latin "spiritus" ("soul", "courage",
move its strongth.i want to know what the word from in early mankind
society.tia.
"vigor", "breath"), related to spirare "to breathe", from
Proto-Indo-European *(s)peis- "to blow".
It's related to the word "respiration".
'Ghost' was the English equivalent of 'spirit' (compare German 'Geist'),
hence 'The Holy Ghost' for Latin 'Spiritus Sanctus'.
The restriction of 'ghost' to mean 'the spirit of a dead person' is
fairly recent.
Colin
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