Fw: Concepts and Words

Jonathan Robie jonathan at texcel.no
Wed Jul 1 07:13:57 EDT 1998


At 03:53 AM 7/1/98, Peter Phillips wrote:

>I always understood the root of KUNEW being "cone" or "wedge-shape" - the 
>same as "cuneiform" writing being writing made of wedge shapes.  Hence the 
>person in "proskunates" herself makes a wedge shape with her body - head 
>down, 'posterior' up as a sign of obeisance.  

How does one look up the history of a root? LSJ doesn't seem to have this
information, at least not in the on-line version.

Jonathan
 
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Texcel Research
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