false cognate of the day
Sep. 22nd, 2020 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberetttavern (Latin taberna) and town (German Zaun i.e. a fence)...
... except then you go back a bit further and "taberna" is PIE *treb-, "wooden beam", which sounds like it might be related back to fencing, and indeed is the source of the German Dorf "village", which is a bit like a town...
... but no! because town is in fact derived from PIE *dʰewh₂- ("to finish, come full circle"), via hill forts.
Obviously.
... except then you go back a bit further and "taberna" is PIE *treb-, "wooden beam", which sounds like it might be related back to fencing, and indeed is the source of the German Dorf "village", which is a bit like a town...
... but no! because town is in fact derived from PIE *dʰewh₂- ("to finish, come full circle"), via hill forts.
Obviously.
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Date: 2020-09-22 10:21 pm (UTC)'treb' to 'dorf', yeah, that's obvious, right.
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Date: 2020-09-23 12:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-09-23 07:37 am (UTC)down < ofdūne "off the hill" is my favourite etymology in this area, anyway. hyper vs hypo, super vs sub, up vs ... down.