Timeline for Etymology behind "tim-" words involving honor and "tim-" words involving fear?
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| Jul 1, 2015 at 12:00 | answer | added | James C | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 1, 2015 at 22:34 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | It is also telling that while the Greek one means a variety of things relating to placing a price on something, valuing it, esteeming it, holding it dear (all positive things), the Latin one relates only to various forms of fear and loathing (all negative things). There doesn’t seem to much there by way of overlapping meanings (to honour and praise a god is also to fear the god, etc.). | |
| May 1, 2015 at 22:31 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | An excellent question! I don’t have copies of the relevant literature available here now, but a brief search indicates that they are in fact not related, despite their similarity. The Greek τῑμ- root (note the long /ī/) seems most convincingly to be from PIE *kʷih₁-m- a metathesised zero-grade of the root *kʷei̯- ‘value, esteem, honour’ with an m-initial suffix (possibly originally *-men, which is a common PIE suffix). The Latin tim- root (note the short /ĭ/) cannot possibly be from the same root, and even de Vaan says no known cognates. | |
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| May 1, 2015 at 21:04 | history | edited | Tushar Raj | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2015 at 20:57 | answer | added | David Pugh | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 1, 2015 at 20:46 | history | asked | Nicole | CC BY-SA 3.0 |