SKOPOS
Steven Craig Miller
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Sun Oct 17 07:48:55 EDT 1999
To: Carl W. Conrad,
<< I may be mistaken, but I remember hearing at some point that Latin
verbs -SPICIO and the more common frequentative SPECTO, "look at" is a
cognate of SKEPTOMAI with reversal of the root consonants. >>
That is the opinion of Charles S. Halsey, in his "An Etymology of Latin and
Greek."
FWIW ... the closest English terms related to the Greek SKEPTOMAI are
'skeptic' and 'scope.'
-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
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