Timeline for What underlying semantic notions explain the etymology of 'fustis'?
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| Jul 13, 2016 at 5:46 | comment | added | user37 |
@Nathaniel The problem is not my refusal to accept the quoted explanation; the problem is the citation's lack of explanation of the underlying semantic notions.
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| Jul 12, 2016 at 17:33 | comment | added | TKR | @Nathaniel, as I understand it, the idea is not that fustis is cognate with xylinon but that the "cotton" sense of fustaneum is a loan-translation of that Greek word. | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 17:27 | answer | added | Ben Kovitz | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 14:50 | comment | added | Nathaniel is protesting | Why do you not accept the quoted explanation? Incidentally, de Vaan connects fustis with futare ("to strike"), not Greek xylinon. | |
| Jul 12, 2016 at 6:10 | history | asked | user37 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |