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Topic: Indo-European, Yenisseian, Altaic Posted: 11-Jun-2008 at 06:39 |
Cyrus, you are the one who brought up hengan, specifically saying
It is obvious both words come from Old English verb "hengan" which means "to hang on, to depend on, to rely on", I don't say "henchman/hengestman" never means "horseman", there are several words which have different meanings from different origins but we are discussing a word which means "follower/dependant", "Hengest" could mean "Stallion" but why not "the most dependent"(henge+-est)? |
I have merely pointed out that there is no Anglo-Saxon verb hengan. Putting a slash between two words does not mean that they are the same, exist, or are related. Doing this is a common ploy that you use and it fools nobody. What your cite shows is that hangian is a verb, that is not contested, you however at numerous times have represented hengan as a verb. Your cite does not attest to a verb "hengan" only to a verb "hangian" therefore putting a slash between the two is meaningless. There is a noun "hengen" but no verb "hengan." Does that mean that hengen is not a noun formed on the past participial form of the verb hón? Absolutely not.
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Posted: 11-Jun-2008 at 05:50 |
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Again Cyrus, according to A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Clark-Hall hengan is a participle form of the verb hón not a separate verb. |
We are talking about "Henge" not "hengan", however similar to the Persian I'm sure the infinitive ending "-an/-ian" in "Hengan/Hangian" shows this is certainly a verb (more info about this Old English verb: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hangian ), anyway we have the word "Stonehenge" which means "Hanging Stones", therefore "Henge" is an adjective, this is really interesting that I see, probably in Old Saxon, like Persian, the adjective comes also after the noun.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 21:08 |
I don't know about 'warm' coming from a verb since it was an adjective in Proto-Germanic. It's just a corresponding adjective and as far as I know its corresponding verb comes from that adjective. 1 The further difference is that 'warm' isn't a substantive verb form but a regular adjective. 'hangingest' doesn't exist - it's not a regular adjective, it's a verb that can function so, but comparison isn't possible there to my knowledge. And at last, 'henge' means 'hängend', not 'following', 'faithful' or anything similar.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 20:51 |
Again Cyrus, according to A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Clark-Hall hengan is a participle form of the verb hón not a separate verb.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 20:38 |
Originally posted by Slayertplsko
The verb is 'hangian'. Hengest can be found in almost every Germanic language, so it's much older than OE.
'heng' is past 3rd singular of 'hón' (past participle is 'hangen'), which means to hang, to crucify. 'hengen' means a rack, cross, torture, imprisonment. 'henge' means 'hanging'/'hängend' (pres.part.) according to Koebler.
'hengest' is stallion, gelding, horse...simply horse.
I can't find anywhere anything else than horse. Now, that's not a bad point henge+est, but: 1, have you ever seen -est added to a participle? 2, since it's common Germanic, it would have to be created at least in PGmc and the form is 'khangistas'
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You yourself say 'henge' means 'hanging', so this is an adjective which comes from Old English verb "hengan"/"hangian", I think there also several other adjectives which relate to the verbs, for example "Warm" (Old English wearm) which comes from the OE verb "werman"/"wearmian" (to become warm), is "warmest" a wrong word?
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 19:25 |
I made a mistake in typing about French "moi". Thanks Slayertplsko for the corrections.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 19:01 |
Originally posted by gok_toruk
Proto – Altaic: si Meaning: thou
Proto-Turkic: se- Modern Turkic: sen Tungus-Manchu: si Old Japanese: si
Proto-Yenisseian: ʔaw Arin: au Yugh: u Pumpokol: ue
Proto Indo-European: te, tu Hittite: ti- (your) Old Indian: te Armenian: du Old Greek: sü Slavic: ti Baltic: tu, -tei
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PIE form is tuH.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:57 |
Originally posted by gok_toruk
Proto – Altaic: bi Meaning: 1st person pronoun
a) I
Proto-Turkic: be- Modern Turkic: men, ben Mongolian: bi, miniy, meni Tungus-Manchu: bi, bu Proto-Japanese: ba Old Japanese: wa Hateruma (of Modern Japanese): banu
Proto Indo-European: ??? English: me German: mir French: moir
b) we
Proto-Turkic: bi-r Meaning: we Modern Turkic: biz, e-byr, miz Mongolian: bide Tungus-Manchu: mes, mit, buta, biti
Proto Indo-European: ??? English: we German: wir
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SG: English 'me' is an objective form, German 'mir' is dative form, French should be 'moi', and it's a disjunctive form. PL: PIE: wei
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:53 |
Originally posted by gok_toruk
Back to topic again: Proto-Yenisseian: aj Meaning: I
Ket: at Kottish: ay Arin: ay
Proto Indo-European: ??? English: I
Notes: Could anyone please give the Proto-Indo-European form?
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The English form is originally ic, I appeared first after the Norman invasion. PIE: h₁eǵ, Latin ego, PGmc eka, Gothic ik, Old Norse ek, Icelandic ég, Norwegian jeg, Swedish jäg (?), German ich...and so on Slavic ja, French je, Spanish yo, Italian io
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:46 |
What does 'hengan' mean? Hängen has different meanings in German, it has even different past and past participle forms. But 'hängen' itself doesn't mean 'to depend on' (in the meaning of condition or cause...this idiomatic meaning is attested first from 1413), that's 'abhängen (von jemandem/etwas - someone/something)', which has a few meanings as well. Hanger-on is from 1549. Both 'depend' and 'hang' originally meant 'to suspend'/'to be suspended', and the chande in meaning came much later.
Still, 'henge' is a participle and doesn't go with -est to my knowledge, and means 'hanging' and is the present participle of 'hangian' ('hengan' too??). Old Teutonic form is 'hangjan', but the stallion has an 'x' in the beginning.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:22 |
Proto – Altaic: si Meaning: thou
Proto-Turkic: se- Modern Turkic: sen Tungus-Manchu: si Old Japanese: si Proto-Yenisseian: ʔaw Arin: au Yugh: u Pumpokol: ue Proto Indo-European: te, tu Hittite: ti- (your) Old Indian: te Armenian: du Old Greek: sü Slavic: ti Baltic: tu, -tei Notes:
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:20 |
Cyrus, hón and hengan are not different verbs. Hengan is the past participle form of hón. Hangian on the other hand is an intr. verb meaning to hang, be hanged; depend, rest on; (as a trans verb) hang, suspend. By the way you still didn't answer my question.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:20 |
Proto – Altaic: bi Meaning: 1st person pronoun
a) I Proto-Turkic: be- Modern Turkic: men, ben Mongolian: bi, miniy, meni Tungus-Manchu: bi, bu Proto-Japanese: ba Old Japanese: wa Hateruma (of Modern Japanese): banu Proto Indo-European: ??? English: me German: mir French: moi b) we
Proto-Turkic: bi-r Meaning: we Modern Turkic: biz, e-byr, miz Mongolian: bide Tungus-Manchu: mes, mit, buta, biti
Proto Indo-European: ??? English: we German: wir
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 18:18 |
Back to topic again: Proto-Yenisseian: aj Meaning: I
Ket: at Kottish: ay Arin: ay
Proto Indo-European: ??? English: I
Notes: Could anyone please give the Proto-Indo-European form?
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 15:45 |
http://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/etymology.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie/piet&text_number=2932&root=config
Proto-Germanic: *xánxan-/xangán- vb, *xangḗn- vb., *xangián- vb.; *xanxitjan- vb., *xanxaskēn, *xánxitōn
Meaning: hang
IE etymology:
Gothic: *hahan st. `hang, keep in suspense'; fɔr(a)-hah n. (a) `curtain'
Old Norse: hanga st. `hangen'; hǟtta wk. `Gefahr laufen, wagen', hǟtta f. `Gefahr', hāski m. `Gefahr'; hengja wk. `hängen'
Norwegian: hanga vb.; hätta sbs., vb.; hengja vb.
Swedish: hänga vb. tr., itr.; dial. häta; dial. häjta vb.; (ält.) hask(e)lig `grässlich', dial. haskeli `schrecklich'
Danish: hänge vb.; hätte sbs., vrb.; hände vb.
Old English: hōn; hangian; hengan `hängen'
Old Frisian: hūa; hangia
Old Saxon: hāhan; hangon
Dutch: { gehengen `erlauben' }
Old High German: hāhan; hangēn; hengen
Middle High German: hāhen red. v. (prt. hinc, hie) tr. 'hängen', intr. 'hangen'; hangen st. intr. 'hangen'; hɛngen wk. 'hangen lassen; nachjagen, nachhängen'; vür-hanc st. m. `curtain'
German: { hangen; hängen }
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 08:35 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Originally posted by Styrbiorn
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
English First relates to Avestan fraeshta ( Avestan Dictionary) and Middle Persin Frast which however means "first" too but originally means "foremost". |
I question that. Do you have a source? In Scandinavian there are different: först, which means and is pronouced like first, and främst, which means foremost, and relates to "being in front".
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Persian -> English
Beh -> Good/Well
Behtar -> Better
Behest (Behtarin) -> Best
Behbeud -> Well-being
Behdar -> Well-doer |
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 06:43 |
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
Originally posted by Slayertplsko
That's wrong again. And you have well proved that you don't think!Firstly, your source again support us - they say that 'hengest' means stallion, not 'follow'. You even wrote this part in bolds here!As for the name Hengest, it says it comes from the word for 'stallion'. That's normal, that's how the names emerge. For instance, Charles comes from the germanic word for 'freeman' (ceorl in OE). Or do you wanna say that 'Vladimir' predates the words 'vladar' and 'mir'??As for the hanger-on - this is...OMG!!It's a compound of 'on' and 'hanger', and the latter is a noun created from the verb 'hang'. I think it's obvious, I can't even imagine how you could link those two. Cyrus, start to think. |
It is obvious both words come from Old English verb "hengan" which means "to hang on, to depend on, to rely on", I don't say "henchman/hengestman" never means "horseman", there are several words which have different meanings from different origins but we are discussing a word which means "follower/dependant", "Hengest" could mean "Stallion" but why not "the most dependent"(henge+-est)? |
One problem Cyrus, hengan isn't to be found in an Old English Dictionary. There is the verb hegan (to preform, achieve; hold a meeting) 1, the nouns hengen (hanging, cross, rack, torture, imprisonment) and hengest, hengst [both fall under the same dictionary entry] (stallion, steed, horse, gelding) 2. The Old English verb that means to hang is actually hón and it means to hang, suspend, crucify, put on (clothes) 3, 4. With this linguistic evidence how can you say that Hengest means hanger-on or follower? The simple fact of the matter is that there is no evidence to support what you are saying. In fact the evidence points to the contrary as other members have pointed out. Where are you getting your information from? It is clearly very flawed. Will you please stop corrupting language evidence to show things that the evidence doesn't support. Especially when it is so easy to prove your claims to be utterly preposterous and totally incorrect.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2008 at 05:31 |
Originally posted by Styrbiorn
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri
English First relates to Avestan fraeshta ( Avestan Dictionary) and Middle Persin Frast which however means "first" too but originally means "foremost". |
I question that. Do you have a source? In Scandinavian there are different: först, which means and is pronouced like first, and främst, which means foremost, and relates to "being in front".
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Persian -> English
Beh -> Good/Well
Behtar -> Better
Behest (Behtarin) -> Best
Behbeud -> Well-being
Behdar -> Well-doer
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Posted: 09-Jun-2008 at 21:03 |
DOGA!!! Yeeees....rainbow, it didn't occur to me, and it's so simple OMG (maybe it's because I haven't seen a rainbow for years) dúha in Slovak, I don't know about southern and eastern branch, but I would bet they have G instead of H there - it's a common difference.
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Posted: 09-Jun-2008 at 21:01 |
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Well, I don't know about shift from "g" to "zh" in Indo-European; but in Altaic, if that "z/zh" is a later change from "sh/ch", so that's possible to consider this case, because "g/K" can change into "sh/ch". What about "doga"? Isn't there anything like "doga" in Slavic? Anyhow, about "to be": Almost all modern languages (of Altaic family) use "to be" the Indo-European style. There are a couple of "to be" roots: 1- Proto-Altaic "biyu" (exactly means "be") 2- Proto-Altaic "era" (is used with suffixes; "to be") For instance, Turkic "men-yng (or "menym") at-ym yashyl erken (or "eken") " = my horse is green. |
About 'doga', well it's a race of canine and it's quite international I think.
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