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I was not saying that the a- was the privative prefix, although it makes no less sense than the combing prefix. I was simply saying, along with others, that is looks probable that knēstis and aknēstis are related. Here's what Chatraine has to say: Le mot à rapprocher de κνηστις «râpe à fromage», cf. sous -κναιω, et on admet que les deux termes sont identiques, cf. Bechtel, Gl. 1, 72, Wackernagel, Gl. 2, 1, Bechtel Lexilogus 27, , enfin Leumann, Hom. Wörter 49: ακνηστις serait né d'une coupure fautive, chez Hom., de κατα ακνηστιν en κατ' ακνηστιν. Toutefois il n'est pas absolument impossible que ακνηστις ait été créé dès la langue hom. pour distinguer les deux mots, l'alpha pouvant être une prothèse. I'll see if I can chase down the references cited.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Thanks Bran;
I may never grate cheese again. If in the days before prefixes we skated on bones, who knows what we grated our stuff on. ( you can buy it already grated )
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a prothetic vowel, if so, that's brilliant.
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 Wow! why did it not occur to me before? About this grate and spine thing: our word for spine is ruggegraat, i.e. rug = back; graat = bone. The bones of fishes are called graten. Etymology unfindable. ( disastrous to have supposedly bright ideas at the point of falling asleep)
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I had to look this one up:
pro·thet·ic
: the addition of a sound to the beginning of a word (as in Old French estat—whence English estate—from Latin status) (M-W on-line) Cool!
Branny! Here, a rugrat is a small child!
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Ha! That's cool too. Today's rugrats hopefully will be the backbone of tomorrow's society. ;-)
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ruggegraat
Interesting word. German has Rückgrat 'backbone, spine, chine'; Grat 'ridge, spine, crest'; Gebirgsgrat 'mountain ridge'; Fischgräte, Gräte 'fish bones.
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