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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