Re: Ger. Gewehr (gun), Gewähr (warranty) , Serb. kubura (handgun), ugovor (agreement)

On Mar 4, 4:16 pm, "Wayne Brown" <awaynebr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:

[...]> Serbian 'z-borit-i' - 'go-worit! (talk, speak); boriti (fight),
pregovarati (negotiate), progovoriti (start to talk); preko (over),
priča (story), progo-voriti = proča-vrljati = po-pričati (talk, speak,
converse);

Gewähr and Serb. govor (speech, talk)?

[...]

Comparing words in different languages by the way they sound to us today
usually leads to the wrong conclusions, but etymological
reference works can offer clarification. The Serbian "goworit" is from
an ancient root found in other Slavic and Indo-European languages, but,
according to standard etymological dictionaries, it has nothing to do
with the modern German word Gewähr.

Regards, ----- WB.

Wayne,
The problem is that we do not know from which "root" the Slavic
'govor' sprang . Pokorny would say it was the root *gou- (*goue-,
*gū-, *gow-), but it is wrong because it coresponds to Old Indian
'gavate' (to sound), Serb. 'zvuk' (sound), 'zovnuti' (call) and
'zvanje' (profession, title); of course, it demands more profound
explanation, which will connect Latin 'aqua' and Serbian
'kovanje' (coin, hammering), 'jeka' (echo!) and 'od-je-
kivanje' (reecho)...

The basis here was GON-BEL-GON ;-) or in the world of "erudits" it
would be close to *berg- because Slavic 'govor' was a compound word
'go-vor', in reality reduced from 'preko-vor' (Serb. priča story,
'pričati' speak, talk, preach!; Serb. pridika (preach!; German
predigen!; Serb. prego-vori negotiations, literally "speach fight";
here we can see that 'voriti' in Slavic 'go-voriti' is equal to
English 'war', i.e. Serb. boriti fight).

I know that the majority of the participants on this list is not able
to understand what I am talking about; especially those who are deeply
swamped in "scientific" contemplation and who are not unable to see
that the diachronic development of words can be resolved only if we
start our researches first with semantic than logic and if we include
phonetic changes in the end. I would say we began from the wrong end
and it was the reason why linguistic science made a little progress
from its first steps, 2 centuries ago.

DV

I hope you would not mind if ask you one discrete question: what is
the meaning of your name (Wayne)?
It sounds to me as Serbian name Vojin (from Bojan, boj battle, bojna/
vojna military, vojnik/bojnik soldier).

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