[lit-ideas] Re: When Water Wasn't Wet
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:19:01 -0230
Quoting Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx:
> Geary said:
>
> "Water is wet"
> "Grass is green" (etymologically).
>
> -- is that analytic?
"Water is wet" is not analytic. When our children were very young, we would
holiday in Ft. Lauderdale where my parents lived. At the beach, when wishing to
play in the ocean, they would ask: "Dad, can we go in the water now?" To which I
would reply: "Yes, but you mustn't get wet." Their entire sensorimotor years
were of course quite swimless. But when they became pre-operational, they would
just laugh - "Dad, we can't do that!!" - and run down to the water. Case
closed.
Walter O,
author of *How to keep your child from becoming a philosopher*
>
> The Latins called it "Unda", hence "Undine".
>
> ---
>
> OED:
>
> water. First quote:
>
> 897 �LFRED Gregory's Past. C. 309 Onsend Ladzarus, ætte he ewæte his
> ytemestan finger on wættre.
>
> Etym.:
>
> Com. Teut.:
>
> Old English wæter neut. corresponds to OFris. watar, watir, weter, etc.,
> OS. watar (MLG., Low German, Du. water), OHG. waar, waar (MHG. waer, mod.G.
> wasser):OTeut. *watar-; a parallel formation with n instead of r occurs in
> Goth. wat neut. (genit. watins), ON. vatn neut. (Norw. vatn, Sw. vatten, Da.
> vand).
>
> The Indo-European root *wod- (Teut. *wat-) occurs in OSl., Russ. voda
> water; the ablaut-variant *wed- (Teut. *wet-) is represented in WET a.; the
> ablaut-variant *ud- (Teut. *ut-) is found more widely: cf. Skr. udán, Gr.
> hudor (genit. hudros), Lith. und (also vand), OPrussian unds, undo, Umbrian
> utur, water, L. unda wave; also the derivatives with the sense
> â??water-animalâ??
> (see OTTER).]
>
> ----
>
> For 'wet'
>
> 888 �LFRED Boeth. xxxiii. §5 Sie eore is drye & ceald, & æt wæter wæt &
>
> ceald.
>
> "water wet"
>
> ----
>
> Etym. -- see 'water'.
>
> For The Romance Languages we have
>
> aqua -- which gives 'aquatic', 'aquous'.
> It. acqua. (with otiose, 'c').
> Sp. 'agua aguosa' would be the strict equivalent of 'wet water'.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL Speranza
> Buenos Aires, Argentina
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