Re: Re: Fr/lat/ru tu-vous/tu-vos/ты-вы: etymology ?

In message <1190820258.979177.319480@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Franz Gnaedinger <frgn@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Sep 26, 4:58 pm, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As though there would be any way possible to know that a people whose
existence is only your own hypothesis to begin with gave each other firm
looks in each other's eyes to indicate agreement.

My intuition,

Well, there we are then.

and the role eyes played in early art.

That would be "looking at it".

Until you pointed it out, I hadn't noticed the frequency with which "early art" depicts pairs of people looking firmly at one another. The masterful use of linear perspective removes all ambiguity about the direction of their gaze.

--
Richard Herring
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