Timeline for Etymology behind "tim-" words involving honor and "tim-" words involving fear?
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| Jul 1, 2015 at 12:27 | comment | added | Jascol | Just to note that the Oxford English Dictionary (very reliable source, Athens-based log in etc) also lists timere as of uncertain origin. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 22:07 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | Pax. (makes note not to use "I was pretty clear" to mean "I thought it was pretty clear" again) | |
| May 1, 2015 at 21:23 | comment | added | David Pugh | Well, you did say "I was pretty clear" in your first, so I shall not apologise for thinking you guys might be an item or at least hot-seating. I don't have an etymology background, further than VI Classics, but that would be good enough for dealing with more lay enquirers such as don't know their Greek from their Latin; and I didn't pay due attention to the name Nicole, which I know does not belong to a noob. Pax? | |
| May 1, 2015 at 21:12 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | Perhaps it's just my etymology background; but when I saw Nicole (who is distinct from me, and perhaps my phrasing threw you off) ask about "where these words might have come from" I automatically extended the tree of origin as far back as possible, that is, to possible common PIE roots. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 21:09 | comment | added | David Pugh | @MattGutting. Are you Nicole then? I'm confused. And actually, I don't think it was at all clear that the question was asking about common PIE origins, especially since the questioner mentions neither Greek nor Latin, so common to what? | |
| May 1, 2015 at 21:02 | comment | added | Matt Gutting | That's exactly what they mean: "timere 'to fear,' of uncertain origin"; and I was pretty clear that the question was asking about PIE origins. | |
| May 1, 2015 at 20:57 | history | answered | David Pugh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |