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The grammatical form

  • 1 form|a

    f 1. (postać, sposób) form; (kształt) form, shape
    - ciasteczka w formie gwiazdek star-shaped cakes
    - różne formy współpracy different forms of cooperation
    - powieść w formie pamiętnika a novel in the form of a journal
    - wydać coś w formie książkowej/skróconej to publish sth in book/abridged form
    - przyjaźń może przybierać różne formy friendship can take various forms
    - przybrać formę strajku/manifestacji to take the form of a strike/demonstration
    - potrzebna jest jakaś forma kontroli some form of control is needed
    - to była forma protestu it was a form of protest
    2. Literat. form
    - forma i treść form and content
    - był mistrzem formy he was a master of form
    - to jest przerost formy nad treścią it represents the triumph of form over contents
    3. (utwór, dzieło sztuki) form
    - małe formy literackie/teatralne short literary/theatrical forms
    - formy przestrzenne spatial forms
    - ograniczenia tej formy literackiej the limitations of this form
    4. Jęz. form
    - formy gramatyczne grammatical forms
    - formy czasu przeszłego past tense forms
    - forma dopełniacza the form of the genitive
    - poprawna/niepoprawna forma a correct/incorrect form
    - w formie pytającej in question form
    5. Biol., Geol. form
    - formy wodne i lądowe aquatic and terrestrial forms
    - formy skalne rock forms
    6. Kulin. tin
    - forma do ciasta a cake tin
    - wlej ciasto do formy pour the mixture into a tin
    - forma chlebowa a bread pan
    7. Techn. (do odlewów) mould GB, mold US
    - forma wtryskowa an injection mould
    8. (wykrój) pattern
    - papierowa forma a paper pattern
    - forma płaszcza/spódnicy a pattern for a coat/skirt
    - forma na sukienkę a pattern for a dress
    9. (samopoczucie, sprawność) form, shape
    - być w dobrej/złej formie to be in good/poor form a. shape
    - być w formie to be on form a. in shape
    - nie być w formie to be off form a. out of shape
    - trzymać formę to keep on form a. in shape
    10. Sport form
    - być/nie być w formie to be on/off form
    - być w dobrej/słabej formie to be in good/poor form
    - utrzymać/stracić formę to keep on/go off form
    - wracać do formy to return to form
    - przeżywać spadek formy to suffer a slump in form
    - zaprezentował doskonałą formę he showed he was in top form
    11. (konwenanse) form
    - formy towarzyskie social conventions; good form przest.
    - przestrzegać form to observe the form
    - robić coś wyłącznie dla formy to do sth purely as a matter of form
    12. Filoz. form 13. Mat. quantic 14. Druk. forma (drukarska) forme
    - □ forma recesywna Jęz. recessive form
    - formy supletywne Jęz. suppletive forms

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  • 2 forma

    forma, ae, f. [Sanscr. dhar-, dhar-āmi, bear; dhar-i-man, figure; Gr. thra- in thrênus, thronos; cf. Lat. frētus, frēnum, fortis, etc.], form, in the most comprehensive sense of the word, contour, figure, shape, appearance (syn.: species, frons, facies, vultus; figura).
    I.
    Lit.
    A.
    In gen.: Ha. Earum nutrix, qua sit facie, mihi expedi. Mi. Statura haud magna, corpore aquilo. Ha. Ipsa ea'st. Mi. Specie venusta, ore parvo, atque oculis pernigris. Ha. Formam quidem hercle verbis depinxti mihi, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 154; cf.:

    quia semper eorum suppeditabatur facies et forma manebat,

    Lucr. 5, 1175:

    corporis nostri partes totaque figura et forma et statura, quam apta ad naturam sit, apparet,

    Cic. Fin. 5, 12, 35; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 47, 60:

    si omnium animantium formam vincit hominis figura, etc.,

    Cic. N. D. 1, 18, 48:

    forma ac species liberalis,

    id. Cael. 3, 6; cf. id. N. D. 1, 14, 37; 1, 27, 76 sqq.; id. Verr. 2, 4, 58, § 129; id. N. D. 1, 10, 26: aspicite, o cives, senis Enni imagini' formam, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 34 (Epigr. 1 ed. Vahl.):

    hoc dico, non ab hominibus formae figuram venisse ad deos... Non ergo illorum humana forma, sed nostra divina dicenda est, etc.,

    id. N. D. 1, 32, 90:

    formaï servare figuram,

    Lucr. 4, 69; cf.:

    Homeri picturam, non poesin videmus. Quae regio, quae species formaque pugnae, qui motus hominum non ita expictus est, ut, etc.,

    Cic. Tusc. 5, 39, 114 (v. Moser ad h. l.):

    eximia forma pueri,

    id. ib. 5, 21, 61:

    virgines formā excellente,

    Liv. 1, 9, 11:

    formā praestante puellae,

    Ov. H. 3, 35:

    forma viros neglecta decet,

    id. A. A. 1, 509; cf.:

    ut excellentem muliebris formae pulchritudinem muta in sese imago contineret,

    Cic. Inv. 2, 1, 1:

    illa aetate venerabilis, haec formae pulchrituline,

    Curt. 3, 11, 24:

    virginem adultam, formā excellentem,

    Liv. 3, 44, 4:

    virginem maxime formā notam,

    id. 4, 9, 4:

    una et viginti formae litterarum,

    Cic. N. D. 2, 37, 93:

    solis,

    Lucr. 5, 571:

    muralium falcium,

    Caes. B. G. 3, 14, 5:

    lanceae novae formae,

    Suet. Dom. 10:

    nova aedificiorum Urbis,

    id. Ner. 16:

    porticus,

    Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 5:

    forma et situs agri,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 4:

    eādem cerā aliae atque aliae formae duci solent,

    Quint. 10, 5, 9:

    geometricae formae,

    Cic. Rep. 1, 17; cf. id. de Or. 1, 42, 187:

    cum sit geometria divisa in numeros atque formas,

    Quint. 1, 10, 35; cf.

    also: Archimedes intentus formis, quas in pulvere descripserat,

    Liv. 25, 31, 9:

    dimidia circuli,

    Plin. 2, 59, 60, § 150:

    clarissimorum virorum formae,

    figures, images, Cic. Mil. 32, 86:

    ille artifex, cum faceret Jovis formam aut Minervae, etc.,

    id. Or. 2, 9:

    igneae formae,

    i. e. fiery bodies, id. N. D. 2, 40, 101:

    inque tori formam molles sternentur arenae,

    in the shape, form, Ov. Am. 2, 11, 47:

    (sacellum) crudis laterculis ad formam camini,

    Plin. 30, 7, 20, § 63:

    ut haec mulier praeter formam nihil ad similitudinem hominis reservarit,

    Cic. Clu. 70, 199.—In poet. circumlocution with gen.: astra tenent caeleste solum formaeque deorum, the forms of gods, for gods, Ov. M. 1, 73:

    formae ferarum,

    id. ib. 2, 78:

    ursi ac formae magnorum luporum,

    Verg. A. 7, 18:

    formae ingentis leo,

    of great size, Just. 15, 4, 17; Tac. A. 4, 72.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    Pregn., a fine form, beauty:

    di tibi formam, di tibi divitias dederant,

    Hor. Ep. 1, 4, 6; cf.:

    et genus et formam regina pecunia donat,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 37:

    movit Ajacem forma captivae Tecmessae,

    id. C. 2, 4, 6; Quint. 2, 5, 12:

    neque, ut laudanda, quae pecuniam suam pluribus largitur, ita quae formam,

    id. 5, 11, 26; 5, 12, 17.—Prov.:

    forma bonum fragile est,

    Ov. A. A. 2, 113.—
    2.
    An outline, plan, design (of an architect, etc.):

    cum formam videro, quale aedificium futurum sit, scire possum,

    Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1: domus erit egregia;

    magis enim cerni jam poterat, quam quantum ex forma judicabamus,

    id. Q. Fr. 2, 5, 3 (2, 6, 2):

    qua ludum gladiatorium aedificaturus erat,

    Suet. Caes. 31.—
    3.
    A model after which any thing is made, a pattern, stamp, last (of a shoemaker), etc.:

    utendum plane sermone, ut numo, cui publica forma est,

    Quint. 1, 6, 3:

    denarius formae publicae,

    Sen. Ben. 5, 29; cf.: formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt, Tac. G. 5:

    formas binarias, ternarias et quaternarias, et denarias etiam resolvi praecepit neque in usu cujusquam versari,

    stamped money, coins, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 39; cf. Curt. 5, 2, 11:

    si scalpra et formas non sutor (emat),

    Hor. S. 2, 3, 106; cf.:

    forma calcei,

    Dig. 9, 2, 5, § 3.—
    4.
    A mould which gives form to something:

    (caseus) vel manu figuratur vel buxeis formis exprimitur,

    Col. 7, 8 fin.:

    formae in quibus aera funduntur,

    Plin. 36, 22, 49, § 168; hence, a frame, case, enclosure:

    opus tectorium propter excellentiam picturae ligneis formis inclusum,

    id. 35, 14, 49, § 173:

    formas rivorum perforare,

    i. e. the conduits, pipes, Front. Aquaed. 75:

    aquaeductus,

    Dig. 7, 1, 27.—Hence,
    b.
    Transf., the aqueduct itself, Front. Aquaed. 126.—
    5.
    A rescript, formulary (post-class., whereas the dimin. formula is predominant in this signif.):

    ex eorum (amicorum) sententia formas composuit,

    Capitol. Anton. 6; so Cod. Just. 1, 2, 20.—
    6.
    Item forma appellatur puls miliacea ex melle, Paul. ex Fest. p. 83 Müll.
    II.
    Trop.
    A.
    In gen., shape, form, nature, manner, kind:

    ad me quasi formam communium temporum et totius rei publicae misisti expressam,

    Cic. Fam. 3, 11, 4; cf.:

    formam quidem ipsam et tamquam faciem honesti vides,

    id. Off. 1, 5, 14:

    innumerabiles quasi formae figuraeque dicendi,

    id. Or. 3, 9, 34:

    cum, quae forma et quasi naturalis nota cujusque sit, describitur, ut, si quaeratur avari species, seditiosi, gloriosi,

    id. de Or. 3, 29, 115; cf.:

    quae sit in ea species et forma et notio viri boni,

    id. Off. 3, 20, 81:

    forma ingenii,

    id. Brut. 85, 294:

    rei publicae,

    id. Fam. 2, 8, 1; cf.:

    exemplar formaque rei publicae,

    id. Rep. 2, 11:

    forma et species et origo tyranni,

    id. ib. 2, 29:

    forma rerum publicarum,

    id. Tusc. 2, 15, 36; cf. id. Rep. 1, 34 fin.:

    officii,

    id. Off. 1, 29, 103:

    propositi,

    Vell. 1, 16:

    sollicitudinum,

    Tac. A. 4, 60:

    formam vitae inire,

    id. ib. 1, 74:

    secundum vulgarem formam juris,

    Dig. 30, 1, 111:

    scelerum formae,

    Verg. A. 6, 626:

    poenae,

    id. ib. 615.—
    B.
    In partic.
    1.
    In philos. lang., like species, a sort, kind: nolim, ne si Latine quidem dici possit, specierum et speciebus dicere; et saepe his casibus utendum est: at formis et formarum velim... Genus et formam definiunt hoc modo: genus est notio ad plures differentias pertinens;

    forma est notio, cujus differentia ad caput generis et quasi fontem referri potest. Formae igitur sunt hae, in quas genus sine ullius praetermissione dividitur, ut si quis jus in legem, morem, aequitatem dividat, etc.,

    Cic. Top. 7, 31; cf.:

    genus et species, quam eandem formam Cicero vocat,

    Quint. 5, 10, 62: a forma generis, quam interdum, quo planius accipiatur, partem licet nominare, hoc modo, etc.... Genus enim est uxor;

    ejus duae formae: una matrumfamilias, altera earum, quae tantummodo uxores habentur,

    Cic. Top. 4, 14:

    quod haec (partitio) sit totius in partes, illa (divisio) generis in formas,

    Quint. 5, 10, 63:

    duae formae matrimoniorum,

    id. 5, 10, 62.—
    2.
    In gram.
    a.
    The grammatical quality, condition of a word:

    in quo animadvertito, natura quadruplicem esse formam, ad quam in declinando accommodari debeant verba, etc.,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 37 sq.; 101 sq. Müll.; Quint. 10, 1, 10.—
    b.
    The grammatical form of a word:

    utrum in secunda forma verbum temporale habeat in extrema syllaba AS an IS, ad discernendas dissimilitudines interest,

    Varr. L. L. 9, § 109 Müll.:

    aeditimus ea forma dictum, qua finitimus,

    Gell. 12, 10, 1.

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  • 3 σχῆμα

    σχῆμα, ατος, τό, ([etym.] ἔχω, σχεῖν)
    A form, shape, figure, E. Ion 238, Ar.V. 1170, Pl.R. 601a, Thphr.Ign.52, etc.;

    καθ' Ἡρακλέα τὸ σ. καὶ τὸ λῆμ' ἔχων Ar.Ra. 463

    ;

    διερεισαμένη τὸ σ. τῇ βακτηρίᾳ Id.Ec. 150

    ;

    Ἱππομέδοντος σ. καὶ μέγας τύπος A.Th. 488

    : in Trag. freq. in periphr., ὦ σ. πέτρας, = πέτρα, S.Ph. 952;

    σ. καὶ πρόσωπον εὐγενὲς τέκνων E.Med. 1072

    ;

    σ. δόμων Id.Alc. 911

     (anap.), cf. Hec. 619; Ἀσιάτιδος γῆς ς. Id.Andr.1: in pl., of one person, φωτὸς κακούργου σχήματ' Id.Fr. 210; μορφῆς σχῆμα or σχήματα, Id. Ion 992, IT 292, cf. IG3.1417.14;

    τὴν αὐτὴν τοῦ σ. μορφήν Arist.PA 640b34

     (but ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ ὑπάρχων, opp. σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος, Ep.Phil.2.6 and 8);

    τὰ σ. καὶ χρώματα Pl.R. 373b

    ;

    σχήμασι καὶ χρώμασι μιμεῖσθαι Arist.Po. 1447a19

    ; κατὰ χρόαν ἢ ὄγκον ἢ σ. [τοῦ προσώπου] Gal.18(2).309; ὅσα παθήματα γίνεται ἀπὸ σχημάτων caused by peculiar conformations, Hp.VM22.
    b atom, imagined as differing from other atoms mainly in shape,

    ἐκ περιφερῶν συγκεῖσθαι σχημάτων Democr.

     ap. Thphr.Sens.65; ἐκ μεγάλων σ. καὶ πολυγωνίων ib.66, cf. 67,al., Od.64.
    2 appearance, opp. the reality, οὐδὲν ἄλλο πλὴν.. ς. a mere outside, E.Fr.25, cf. 360.27, Pl.R. 365c; show, pretence,

    ἦν δὲ τοῦτο.. σ. πολιτικὸν τοῦ λόγου Th.8.89

    ;

    οὐ σχήμασι, ἀλλὰ ἀληθείᾳ Pl.Epin. 989c

    ; σχήματι ξενίας under the show of.., Plu. Dio16, etc.
    3 bearing, air, mien, Hdt.1.60;

    τύραννον σ. ἔχειν S.Ant. 1169

    ; ἄφοβον δεικνὺς ς. X.Cyr.6.4.20; ταπεινὸν ς. ib.5.1.5; ὑπηρέτου ς. D.23.210;

    τῷ σχήματι, τῷ βλέμματι, τῇ φωνῇ Id.21.72

    ; ὄμμασι καὶ σχήμασι καὶ βαδίς ματι φαιδρός gestures, X.Ap.27, cf. Mem. 3.10.5; esp. outside show, pomp, τὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς ς. Pl.Lg. 685c; dignity, rank, οὐ κατὰ σ. φέρειν τι in a manner not dignified or seemly, Plb.3.85.9, cf. 5.56.1, Plu.2.44a, 631c, Luc.Peregr.25; πρεσβείας, ἱερείας ς., Aristid.1.490 J., Inscr.Olymp.941; ἔχει τι ς., c. inf., there's something to be said for.., E.Tr. 470, cf. IA 983; of the stately air of a horse, X.Eq.1.8,7.10.
    4 fashion, manner,

    ἑτέρῳ σ. ζητεῖν Hp.VM2

    ; σ. μὲν γὰρ Ἑλλάδος στολῆς ὑπάρχει fashion of dress, S.Ph. 223;

    σ. τοῦ κόσμου E.Ba. 832

    , 1 Ep.Cor.7.31; σ. βίου, μάχης, E.Med. 1039, Ph. 252 (lyr.); τούτῳ.. κατῴκουν τῷ ς. Pl.Criti. 112d.
    b dress, equipment,

    ἀρχαίῳ σ. λαμπρός Ar.Eq. 1331

    ; βαβαιὰξ τοῦ ς. Id.Ach.64, cf. X.Oec.2.4, Theoc.10.35, App.BC1.16; τὸ τῆς πορφύρας ς., = Lat. latus clavus, IGRom.3.1422 ([place name] Prusias); ἐν τῷ σ. ἱερέ[ως] ib. 69.17 (ibid., cf. Glotta 14.80), cf.Sammelb.7449.10 (V A.D.), PLond.5.1729.25 (vi A.D.).
    5 character, role, μεταβαλεῖν τὸ ς. Pl.Alc.1.135d;

    πάντα σ. ποιεῖν Id.R. 576a

    ;

    ἐν μητρὸς σχήματι Id.Lg. 918e

    , cf. 859a; ἀπολαβεῖν τὸ ἑαυτῶν ς. to recover their proper character, X.Cyr.7.1.49.
    6 character, characteristic propetry of a thing, [ πόλεως] Th.6.89;

    πολιτείας Pl.Plt. 291d

    ; βάσιλείας σ. ἔχει the form of monarchy, Arist.EN 1160b25;

    τὸ σ. τῆς λέξεως δεῖ μήτε ἔμμετρον εἶναι μήτε ἄρρυθμον Id.Rh. 1408b21

     (but τὰ σ. τῆς λέξεως the forms ( modes) used in poetry, such as entreaty, threat, command, Id.Po. 1456b9); τὰ τῆς κωμῳδίας ς. its characteristic forms, ib. 1448b36; ἐν σχήματι νόμου in form of law, Pl.Lg. 718b; ἐν ἀπολογίας ς. Isoc.15.8; ἐν μύθου ς. Arist.Metaph. 1074b2, cf. Pl.Ti. 22c; τὸ τῆς διαίτης ς. Gal.15.582;

    αἱ κατὰ σχήματα πυρετῶν διαφοραί Id.19.183

    .
    7 a figure in Dancing, Ar.V. 1485: mostly in pl., figures, gestures (cf. σχημάτιον), E.Cyc. 221, Ar. Pax 323, Pl.Lg. 669d, Epigr. ap. Plu.2.732f, etc.;

    σχήματα πρὸς τὸν αὐλὸν ὀρχεῖσθαι X.Smp.7.5

    ; ἐν.. μουσικῇ καὶ σχήματα.. καὶ μέλη ἔνεστι figures and tunes, Pl.Lg. 655a; also of the postures of an athlete, Isoc.15.183: generally, posture, position, Hp.Off.11, al., Ar. Ra. 538(lyr.), Thphr.Lass.3,14; of the foetus, Sor.2.55; τὸ τῆς κατακλίσεως ς. the patient's attitude as he lies in bed, Gal.16.578, cf. 665; cf.

    σχηματίζω 11.3

    .
    b Rhet., figure of speech, Pl. Ion 536c, Cic.Brut. 37.141, etc.; [

    ἡ τοῦ Θουκυδίδου φράσις] πλήρης σχημάτων D.H.Pomp. 5

    , cf. Amm.2.2; for σ. Πινδαρικόν, etc., v. Hdn.Fig.p.100S.
    c in Logic, figure of a syllogism, Arist.APr. 26b33,al., Thphr.Fr.59.
    d τὸ σ. τῆς λέξεως, both the grammatical form of a sentence, Arist.SE 166b10, cf. Gal.16.709, etc.; and its rhythmical form, Arist.Rh.l.c. supr.6, etc.
    e grammatical form of a word, Hp.Vict.1.23, D.T.635.21, A.D.Pron.17.25,al.
    b phase of the moon, Ptol.Tetr.21, Vett.Val. 106.28.
    c Astrol., aspect, Plot.2.3.1, Man.3.5, 212, al.
    9 in Tactics, military formation, X.An.1.10.10.
    10 = τὸ αἰδοῖον LXXIs.3.17.

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  • 4 Usage note : be

    The direct French equivalent of the verb to be in subject + to be + predicate sentences is être:
    I am tired
    = je suis fatigué
    Caroline is French
    = Caroline est française
    the children are in the garden
    = les enfants sont dans le jardin
    It functions in very much the same way as to be does in English and it is safe to assume it will work as a translation in the great majority of cases.
    Note, however, that when you are specifying a person’s profession or trade, a/an is not translated:
    she’s a doctor
    = elle est médecin
    Claudie is still a student
    = Claudie est toujours étudiante
    This is true of any noun used in apposition when the subject is a person:
    he’s a widower
    = il est veuf
    But
    Lyons is a beautiful city
    = Lyon est une belle ville
    For more information or expressions involving professions and trades consult the usage note Shops, Trades and Professions.
    For the conjugation of the verb être see the French verb tables.
    Grammatical functions
    The passive
    être is used to form the passive in French just as to be is used in English. Note, however, that the past participle agrees in gender and number with the subject:
    the rabbit was killed by a fox
    = le lapin a été tué par un renard
    the window had been broken
    = la fenêtre avait été cassée
    their books will be sold
    = leurs livres seront vendus
    our doors have been repainted red
    = nos portes ont été repeintes en rouge
    In spoken language, French native speakers find the passive cumbersome and will avoid it where possible by using the impersonal on where a person or people are clearly involved : on a repeint nos portes en rouge.
    Progressive tenses
    In French the idea of something happening over a period of time cannot be expressed using the verb être in the way that to be is used as an auxiliary verb in English.
    The present
    French uses simply the present tense where English uses the progressive form with to be:
    I am working
    = je travaille
    Ben is reading a book
    = Ben lit un livre
    The future
    French also uses the present tense where English uses the progressive form with to be:
    we are going to London tomorrow
    = nous allons à Londres demain
    I’m (just) coming!
    = j’arrive!
    I’m (just) going!
    = j’y vais!
    The past
    To express the distinction between she read a newspaper and she was reading a newspaper French uses the perfect and the imperfect tenses: elle a lu un journal/elle lisait un journal:
    he wrote to his mother
    = il a écrit à sa mère
    he was writing to his mother
    = il écrivait à sa mère
    However, in order to accentuate the notion of describing an activity which went on over a period of time, the phrase être en train de (= to be in the process of) is often used:
    ‘what was he doing when you arrived?’
    ‘he was cooking the dinner’
    = ‘qu’est-ce qu’il faisait quand tu es arrivé?’ ‘il était en train de préparer le dîner’
    she was just finishing her essay when …
    = elle était juste en train de finir sa dissertation quand …
    The compound past
    Compound past tenses in the progressive form in English are generally translated by the imperfect in French:
    I’ve been looking for you
    = je te cherchais
    For progressive forms + for and since (I’ve been waiting for an hour, I had been waiting for an hour, I’ve been waiting since Monday etc.) see the entries for and since.
    Obligation
    When to be is used as an auxiliary verb with another verb in the infinitive ( to be to do) expressing obligation, a fixed arrangement or destiny, devoir is used:
    she’s to do it at once
    = elle doit le faire tout de suite
    what am I to do?
    = qu’est-ce que je dois faire?
    he was to arrive last Monday
    = il devait arriver lundi dernier
    she was never to see him again
    = elle ne devait plus le revoir.
    In tag questions
    French has no direct equivalent of tag questions like isn’t he? or wasn’t it? There is a general tag question n’est-ce pas? (literally isn’t it so?) which will work in many cases:
    their house is lovely, isn’t it?
    = leur maison est très belle, n’est-ce pas?
    he’s a doctor, isn’t he?
    = il est médecin, n’est-ce pas?
    it was a very good meal, wasn’t it?
    = c’était un très bon repas, n’est-ce pas?
    However, n’est-ce pas can very rarely be used for positive tag questions and some other way will be found to express the extra meaning contained in the tag: par hasard ( by any chance) can be very useful as a translation:
    ‘I can’t find my glasses’ ‘they’re not in the kitchen, are they?’
    = ‘je ne trouve pas mes lunettes’ ‘elles ne sont pas dans la cuisine, par hasard?’
    you haven’t seen Gaby, have you?
    = tu n’as pas vu Gaby, par hasard?
    In cases where an opinion is being sought, si? meaning more or less or is it? or was it? etc. can be useful:
    it’s not broken, is it?
    = ce n’est pas cassé, si?
    he wasn’t serious, was he?
    = il n’était pas sérieux, si?
    In many other cases the tag question is simply not translated at all and the speaker’s intonation will convey the implied question.
    In short answers
    Again, there is no direct equivalent for short answers like yes I am, no he’s not etc. Where the answer yes is given to contradict a negative question or statement, the most useful translation is si:
    ‘you’re not going out tonight’ ‘yes I am’
    = ‘tu ne sors pas ce soir’ ‘si’
    In reply to a standard enquiry the tag will not be translated:
    ‘are you a doctor?’ ‘yes I am’
    = ‘êtes-vous médecin?’ ‘oui’
    ‘was it raining?’ ‘yes it was’
    = ‘est-ce qu’il pleuvait?’ ‘oui’
    Probability
    For expressions of probability and supposition ( if I were you etc.) see the entry be.
    Other functions
    Expressing sensations and feelings
    In expressing physical and mental sensations, the verb used in French is avoir:
    to be cold
    = avoir froid
    to be hot
    = avoir chaud
    I’m cold
    = j’ai froid
    to be thirsty
    = avoir soif
    to be hungry
    = avoir faim
    to be ashamed
    = avoir honte
    my hands are cold
    = j’ai froid aux mains
    If, however, you are in doubt as to which verb to use in such expressions, you should consult the entry for the appropriate adjective.
    Discussing health and how people are
    In expressions of health and polite enquiries about how people are, aller is used:
    how are you?
    = comment allez-vous?
    ( more informally) comment vas-tu?
    are you well?
    = vous allez bien?
    how is your daughter?
    = comment va votre fille?
    my father is better today
    = mon père va mieux aujourd’hui
    Discussing weather and temperature
    In expressions of weather and temperature faire is generally used:
    it’s cold
    = il fait froid
    it’s windy
    = il fait du vent
    If in doubt, consult the appropriate adjective entry.
    Visiting somewhere
    When to be is used in the present perfect tense to mean go, visit etc., French will generally use the verbs venir, aller etc. rather than être:
    I’ve never been to Sweden
    = je ne suis jamais allé en Suède
    have you been to the Louvre?
    = est-ce que tu es déjà allé au Louvre?
    or est-ce que tu as déjà visité le Louvre?
    Paul has been to see us three times
    = Paul est venu nous voir trois fois
    Note too:
    has the postman been?
    = est-ce que le facteur est passé?
    For here is, here are, there is, there are see the entries here and there.
    The translation for an expression or idiom containing the verb to be will be found in the dictionary at the entry for another word in the expression: for to be in danger see danger, for it would be best to … see best etc.
    This dictionary contains usage notes on topics such as the clock, time units, age, weight measurement, days of the week, and shops, trades and professions, many of which include translations of particular uses of to be.

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  • 5 molestar

    v.
    1 to bother.
    perdone que le moleste… I'm sorry to bother you…
    ¿le molesta que fume? do you mind if I smoke?
    Sus palabras acedaron a María His words Maryoyed Mary.
    2 to upset.
    me molestó que no me saludaras I was rather upset that you didn't say hello to me
    3 to be bothered by.
    Me molesta ese ruido I am bothered by that noise.
    4 to ail.
    * * *
    1 (interrumpir) to disturb
    ■ no lo molestes, que está durmiendo don't disturb him, he's asleep
    2 (perturbar) to bother, annoy, upset
    3 (importunar) to pester
    ■ ¡deja de molestarme ya! stop pestering me!
    4 (hacer daño - apretar) to hurt, be too tight; (- picar) to irritate
    5 (ofender) to upset
    ■ no se moleste en venir, ya se lo mandaremos a casa don't bother coming, we'll send it round to you
    2 (ofenderse) to take offence
    * * *
    verb
    1) to annoy, bother
    •
    * * *
    1. VT
    1) (=importunar) to bother, annoy

    ¿no la estarán molestando, verdad? — they're not bothering o annoying you, are they?

    no la molestes más con tus tonterías — stop pestering o bothering o annoying her with your silly games

    2) (=interrumpir) to disturb

    siento molestarte, pero necesito que me ayudes — I'm sorry to disturb o trouble o bother you, but I need your help

    3) (=ofender) to upset
    2. VI
    1) (=importunar) to be a nuisance

    quita de en medio, que siempre estás molestando — get out of the way, you're always being a nuisance

    no quisiera molestar, pero necesito hablar contigo — I don't want to bother you o be a nuisance, but I need to talk to you

    me molesta mucho que me hablen así — it really annoys o irritates me when they talk to me like that

    ese ruido me molesta — that noise is bothering o annoying o irritating me

    me molesta el jarrón, ¿puedes apartarlo? — the vase is in the way, can you move it?

    2) (=incomodar) to feel uncomfortable, bother

    ¿te molesta el humo? — does the smoke bother you?

    si le sigue molestando, acuda a su médico — if it goes on giving you trouble, see your doctor

    3) (=ofender) to upset
    4) (=importar)
    [en preguntas]

    ¿le molesta la radio? — does the radio bother you?, do you mind the radio being on?

    ¿te molestaría prestarme un paraguas? — would you mind lending me an umbrella?

    ¿le molesta que abra la ventana o si abro la ventana? — do you mind if I open the window?

    3.
    See:
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( importunar) to bother
    b) ( interrumpir) to disturb
    2) (ofender, disgustar) to upset
    2.
    1) ( importunar) (+me/te/le etc)

    ¿no te molesta ese ruido? — doesn't that noise bother you?

    ¿le molesta si fumo? — do you mind if I smoke?

    no me duele, pero me molesta — it doesn't hurt but it's uncomfortable

    2) ( fastidiar) to be a nuisance

    vino a ayudar pero no hizo más que molestar — he came to help, but he just made a nuisance of himself

    3.
    molestarsev pron
    1) ( disgustarse) to get upset

    se molestó por lo que le dije — he was upset o offended by what I said

    2) ( tomarse el trabajo) to bother, trouble oneself (frml)

    no se moleste — it's all right o please, don't bother

    ¿para qué vas a molestarte? — why should you put yourself out?

    molestarse EN + INF: ni se molestó en llamarme he didn't even bother to call me; se molestó en venir a verme — she took the trouble to come and see me

    * * *
    = bother, irk, pester, disrupt, irritate, trouble, hassle, bug, tread on + toes, spite, annoy, nag (at), disturb, upset, niggle, importune, gall, peeve.
    Ex. Why bother, then, to create an alphabetical index to the classified file when you already have a printed alphabetical index to the schedules of the classification scheme?.
    Ex. She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.
    Ex. And there are those whom I have pestered from time to time over the past four years, and who have patiently answered my importunity.
    Ex. Essentially, problem patrons can be considered in three groups: (1) the dangerous or apparently dangerous; (2) the patron who disrupts readers; and (3) the nuisance whose focus is the librarian.
    Ex. Their education must accordingly be designed to prepare them for that future, however much this may irritate the myopics whose only concern is for the present.
    Ex. This is a problem that has frequently troubled teachers.
    Ex. Richins also included inconveniences such as special trips to complain, time and effort required to fill out form, being treated rudely, and having to hassle someone.
    Ex. I have a question that has been bugging me since I upgraded to ProCite 5 some time ago.
    Ex. For all the indisputable good the Dalai Lama does in terms of spiritual guidance, he seems reluctant to tread on any political toes.
    Ex. Men's abuse of children is in many instances instrumental in order to coerce or retaliate against women, echoing the Greek myth of Medea who killed her own children to spite her father.
    Ex. Library pests are any humans, large or microscopic beasts, library equipment or installations, or chemical and biological substances that hamper or annoy the reader.
    Ex. This a book that I had admired but that had nagged at me for years.
    Ex. Transcribe the data as found, however, if case endings are affected, if the grammatical construction of the data would be disturbed, or if one element is inseparably linked to another.
    Ex. Especially if the new subject is one which upsets the previous structure of relationships, it will be difficult to fit into the existing order.
    Ex. He was under the knife last week to treat the knee problem that has been niggling him.
    Ex. He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
    Ex. It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
    Ex. Things like talking over the performances and cutting to commercials in the middle of performances were really peaving the people who watched.
    ----
    * molestarse = stir + uneasily, get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist, get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle, begrudge, grudge, pique.
    * molestarse por = be bothered by, bridle at.
    * * *
    1.
    verbo transitivo
    1)
    a) ( importunar) to bother
    b) ( interrumpir) to disturb
    2) (ofender, disgustar) to upset
    2.
    1) ( importunar) (+me/te/le etc)

    ¿no te molesta ese ruido? — doesn't that noise bother you?

    ¿le molesta si fumo? — do you mind if I smoke?

    no me duele, pero me molesta — it doesn't hurt but it's uncomfortable

    2) ( fastidiar) to be a nuisance

    vino a ayudar pero no hizo más que molestar — he came to help, but he just made a nuisance of himself

    3.
    molestarsev pron
    1) ( disgustarse) to get upset

    se molestó por lo que le dije — he was upset o offended by what I said

    2) ( tomarse el trabajo) to bother, trouble oneself (frml)

    no se moleste — it's all right o please, don't bother

    ¿para qué vas a molestarte? — why should you put yourself out?

    molestarse EN + INF: ni se molestó en llamarme he didn't even bother to call me; se molestó en venir a verme — she took the trouble to come and see me

    * * *
    = bother, irk, pester, disrupt, irritate, trouble, hassle, bug, tread on + toes, spite, annoy, nag (at), disturb, upset, niggle, importune, gall, peeve.

    Ex: Why bother, then, to create an alphabetical index to the classified file when you already have a printed alphabetical index to the schedules of the classification scheme?.

    Ex: She had been told from time to time that he seemed to derive satisfaction from needling the staff, but she had never been able to pin down specifically what he does that irks them.
    Ex: And there are those whom I have pestered from time to time over the past four years, and who have patiently answered my importunity.
    Ex: Essentially, problem patrons can be considered in three groups: (1) the dangerous or apparently dangerous; (2) the patron who disrupts readers; and (3) the nuisance whose focus is the librarian.
    Ex: Their education must accordingly be designed to prepare them for that future, however much this may irritate the myopics whose only concern is for the present.
    Ex: This is a problem that has frequently troubled teachers.
    Ex: Richins also included inconveniences such as special trips to complain, time and effort required to fill out form, being treated rudely, and having to hassle someone.
    Ex: I have a question that has been bugging me since I upgraded to ProCite 5 some time ago.
    Ex: For all the indisputable good the Dalai Lama does in terms of spiritual guidance, he seems reluctant to tread on any political toes.
    Ex: Men's abuse of children is in many instances instrumental in order to coerce or retaliate against women, echoing the Greek myth of Medea who killed her own children to spite her father.
    Ex: Library pests are any humans, large or microscopic beasts, library equipment or installations, or chemical and biological substances that hamper or annoy the reader.
    Ex: This a book that I had admired but that had nagged at me for years.
    Ex: Transcribe the data as found, however, if case endings are affected, if the grammatical construction of the data would be disturbed, or if one element is inseparably linked to another.
    Ex: Especially if the new subject is one which upsets the previous structure of relationships, it will be difficult to fit into the existing order.
    Ex: He was under the knife last week to treat the knee problem that has been niggling him.
    Ex: He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.
    Ex: It was the American attitude of superiority that galled them the most.
    Ex: Things like talking over the performances and cutting to commercials in the middle of performances were really peaving the people who watched.
    * molestarse = stir + uneasily, get + Posesivo + knickers in a twist, get + Posesivo + panties in a bundle, begrudge, grudge, pique.
    * molestarse por = be bothered by, bridle at.

    * * *
    molestar [A1 ]
    vt
    A
    1 (importunar) to bother
    perdone que lo moleste, pero quisiera pedirle algo sorry to trouble o bother you, but I'd like to ask you something
    ¿este señor la está molestando, señorita? is this man bothering you, Miss?
    2 (interrumpir) to disturb
    no la molestes, está estudiando don't disturb her, she's studying
    que no me moleste nadie, voy a dormir un rato don't let anybody disturb me, I'm going to take a nap
    B (ofender, disgustar) to upset
    perdona si te he molestado I'm sorry if I've upset you
    ■ molestar
    vi
    A
    (importunar): ¿no te molesta ese ruido? doesn't that noise bother you?
    [ S ] se ruega no molestar please do not disturb
    ¿le molesta si fumo? do you mind if I smoke?
    me molesta su arrogancia her arrogance irritates o annoys me
    ya sabes que me molesta que hables de él you know I don't like you to talk about him, you know I get upset o it upsets me when you talk about him
    nunca uso pulseras, me molestan para trabajar I never wear bracelets, they get in the way when I'm working
    no me duele, pero me molesta it doesn't hurt but it's uncomfortable o it bothers me
    si le molesta mucho, puedo ponerle una inyección if it's very sore o painful, I could give you an injection
    B (fastidiar) to be a nuisance
    si vas a molestar, te vas de clase if you're going to be a nuisance, you can leave the classroom
    vino a ayudar pero no hizo más que molestar he came to help, but he just got in the way o made a nuisance of himself
    son unos niños encantadores, nunca molestan they're lovely children, they're never any trouble o they're no trouble at all
    no quiero molestar I don't want to be a nuisance o to get in the way o to cause any trouble
    A (disgustarse) to get upset
    no debes molestarte, lo hizo sin querer don't get upset, he didn't mean to do it
    molestarse POR algo:
    se molestó por algo he got upset about something
    espero que no se haya molestado por lo que le dije I hope you weren't upset o offended by what I said
    molestarse CON algn to get annoyed WITH sb, get cross WITH sb ( BrE)
    se molestó conmigo porque no lo invité he got annoyed o cross with me because I didn't invite him, he was put out o upset because I didn't invite him
    B (tomarse el trabajo) to bother, trouble oneself ( frml)
    no se moleste, me voy enseguida it's all right o please, don't bother o don't worry, I'm just leaving
    no se molesta por nadie, sólo piensa en él he doesn't bother o worry about anybody else, all he thinks about is himself
    ¿para qué vas a molestarte? why should you put yourself out?
    molestarse EN + INF:
    ni se molestó en llamarme he didn't even bother to call me
    se molestó en venir hasta aquí a avisarnos she took the trouble to come o she went to the trouble of coming all this way to tell us
    yo no me voy a molestar en cocinar para ellos I'm not going to put myself out cooking for them
    * * *

     

    molestar ( conjugate molestar) verbo transitivo
    1

    ◊ perdone que lo moleste sorry to trouble o bother you


    2 (ofender, disgustar) to upset
    verbo intransitivo
    1 ( importunar):
    ◊ ¿le molesta si fumo? do you mind if I smoke?;

    me molesta su arrogancia her arrogance irritates o annoys me;
    no me duele, pero me molesta it doesn't hurt but it's uncomfortable
    2 ( fastidiar) to be a nuisance;
    ◊ no quiero molestar I don't want to be a nuisance o to cause any trouble

    molestarse verbo pronominal
    1 ( disgustarse) to get upset;
    molestarse POR algo to get upset about sth;
    molestarse CON algn to get annoyed with sb
    2 ( tomarse el trabajo) to bother, trouble oneself (frml);

    se molestó en venir hasta aquí a avisarnos she took the trouble to come all this way to tell us
    molestar verbo transitivo
    1 (causar enojo, incomodidad) to disturb, bother: ¿le molestaría contestar a unas preguntas?, would you mind answering some questions?
    me molesta que grites, it annoys me when you shout
    2 (causar dolor, incomodidad) to hurt
    ' molestar' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    dañar
    - dejar
    - hartar
    - jambar
    - jorobar
    - marear
    - picar
    - reventar
    - ruido
    - sino
    - vivir
    - chingar
    - chocar
    - chorear
    - embromar
    - enredar
    - fastidiar
    - fregar
    - huevear
    - importar
    - joder
    - nomás
    - solo
    English:
    aggravate
    - annoy
    - bother
    - bug
    - disturb
    - gall
    - inconvenience
    - intrude
    - irk
    - irritate
    - nettle
    - pester
    - put out
    - roil
    - trouble
    - worry
    - heckler
    - impose
    - put
    - spite
    * * *
    ♦ vt
    1. [perturbar] to bother;
    el calor no me molesta the heat doesn't bother me;
    esa luz tan brillante me molesta that bright light is hurting my eyes;
    deja ya de molestar al gato leave the cat alone;
    ¡deja de molestarme! stop annoying me!;
    ¿te están molestando los niños? are the children bothering you?;
    las moscas no paraban de molestarnos the flies were a real nuisance;
    ¿le molesta que fume o [m5] si fumo? do you mind if I smoke?;
    ¿te molesta la radio? is the radio bothering you?;
    ¿te molesta si abro la ventana? do you mind if I open the window?;
    perdone que le moleste… I'm sorry to bother you…
    2. [doler]
    me molesta una pierna my leg is giving me a bit of trouble;
    me molesta un poco la herida my wound is rather uncomfortable o a bit sore;
    vuelva dentro de un mes si le sigue molestando come back in a month's time if it's still troubling you
    3. [ofender] to upset;
    me molestó que no me saludaras I was rather upset that you didn't say hello to me;
    … todo esto dicho sin ánimo de molestar a nadie I don't want to cause anyone offence but…
    ♦ vi
    vámonos, aquí no hacemos más que molestar let's go, we're in the way here;
    deja ya de molestar con tantas preguntas stop being such a nuisance and asking all those questions;
    ¿molesto? – no, no, pasa am I interrupting? – no, not at all, come in;
    no querría molestar, pero necesito hablar contigo un momento I don't want to interrupt, but I need to have a word with you;
    puedes aparcar el camión allí, que no molesta you can park the truck over there where it won't be in the way;
    no molestar [en letrero] do not disturb
    * * *
    v/t
    1 bother, annoy
    2 ( doler) trouble;
    no molestar do not disturb
    * * *
    1) fastidiar: to annoy, to bother
    2) : to disturb, to disrupt
    : to be a nuisance
    * * *
    1. (interrumpir) to disturb
    no lo molestes, está descansando don't disturb him he's resting
    2. (importunar) to bother
    3. (disgustar) to upset [pt. & pp. upset]
    4. (producir un dolor) to hurt [pt. & pp. hurt]
    5. (importar) to mind
    ¿le molesta que fume? do you mind if I smoke?

    Spanish-English dictionary > molestar

  • 6 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

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  • 7 rhetorical\ question

    peculiar interrogative construction which semantically remains a statement;
    - serves to call the attention of listeners;
    - makes an indispensable part of oratoric speech for they very successfully emphasise the orator's ideas.
    Source: V.A.K.
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    a) a special syntactical stylistic device the essence of which consists in reshaping the grammatical meaning of the interrogative sentence;

    Are these the remedies for a starving and desperate populace?

    b) a statement expressed in the form of an interrogative sentence;
    c) an utterance in the form of a question which pronounces judgement and also expresses various kind of modal shades of meanings, as doubt, challenge, scorn, irony and so on;
    - is generally structurally embodied in complex sentences with the subordinate clause containing the pronouncement;
    - may be looked upon as a transference of grammatical meaning
    Source: I.R.G.
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    вопрос, который не предполагает ответа, ставится не для того, чтобы побудить слушателя сообщить нечто неизвестное говорящему, а чтобы привлечь внимание, усилить впечатление, повысить эмоциональный тон, создать приподнятость

    Being your slave, what should I do but tend // Upon the hours and times of your desire? (W.Shakespeare - Sonnet LVII) - Для верных слуг нет ничего другого // Как ожидать у двери госпожу. (пер. С.Я.Маршака)

    Source: I.V.A.
    See: order of words, negative-interrogative sentences, transposition, question-in-the-narrative, syntactical SDs

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  • 8 classe

    classe [klαs]
    1. feminine noun
       a. ( = catégorie) class
    • classe moyenne inférieure/supérieure lower/upper middle class
    • compartiment de 1ère/2e classe 1st/2nd class compartment
    • voyager en 1ère classe to travel 1st class
    • classe affaires/économique business/economy class
       c. ( = valeur) class
    • elle a de la classe or elle a la classe (inf) she's got class
    • ils sont descendus au Ritz, la classe quoi ! (inf) they stayed at the Ritz: classy, eh? (inf)
       d. ( = élèves) class ; ( = année d'études) year
    • les grandes/petites classes the senior/junior classes
    • il est en classe de 6e ≈ he is in the 1st year (Brit) or 5th grade (US)
    • partir en classe de neige ≈ to go on a school ski trip
       e. ( = cours) class
    • pendant/après la classe or les heures de classe during/after school
    • la classe se termine or les élèves sortent de classe à 16 heures school finishes at 4 o'clock
       f. (School = salle) classroom ; (d'une classe particulière) form room (Brit), homeroom (US)
       g. militaire or soldat de 2e classe (terre) private ; (air) aircraftman (Brit) airman basic (US)
    2. invariable adjective
    [personne, vêtements, voiture] (inf) classy (inf)
    * * *
    klas
    1) École ( groupe d'élèves) class, form GB; ( niveau) year, form GB, grade US
    2) École ( cours) class, lesson
    3) École ( salle) classroom
    4) Sociologie, Politique class
    5) ( catégorie) class (de of)
    6) ( rang) gén class; Administration grade
    7) ( élégance) class

    c'est pas la classe! — (colloq) that's not very stylish!

    billet de première/seconde classe — first-/second-class ou standard GB ticket

    faire ses classes — lit to do one's basic training; fig to start out

    un cinéaste qui a fait ses classes à la télévision — fig a film director who started out in television

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    Phrasal Verbs:
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    klɒs nf
    1) (catégorie) class
    2) (= niveau) class

    un soldat de deuxième classe (armée de terre) — private, (armée de l'air) aircraftman Grande-Bretagne airman basic USA

    5) (= local d'enseignement) classroom
    6) (= leçon) class

    On a classe à 10h. — We have a lesson at 10 o'clock.

    7) (= niveau scolaire) year, grade USA
    8) (= élèves) class

    C'est la meilleure élève de la classe. — She's the best pupil in the class.

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    classe nf
    1 Scol ( groupe d'élèves) class, form GB; ( niveau) year, form GB, grade US; une classe turbulente/studieuse a rowdy/hard-working class ou form GB; les classes primaires/de maternelle primary (school)/nursery classes; les classes du secondaire secondary school classes ou forms GB, ≈ junior high school and high school US; redoubler une classe to repeat a year; passer dans la classe supérieure to go up a year; être le premier/dernier de sa classe to be ou come top/bottom of the class;
    2 Scol ( cours) class, lesson; une classe de dessin a drawing class ou lesson; les élèves de Mme Dupont n'auront pas classe demain Mrs Dupont's class won't be having any lessons tomorrow; parler en classe to talk in class; faire la classe to teach; le soir après la classe in the evening after school;
    3 Scol ( salle) classroom; il s'est fait mettre à la porte de la classe he was sent out of the classroom;
    4 Sociol, Pol class; les classes sociales the social classes; la classe ouvrière/dirigeante the working/ruling class; les classes moyennes the middle classes; une société sans classes a classless society; classe politique political class ou community;
    5 ( catégorie) class (de of); la classe des mammifères the class of mammals; les artistes sont une classe à part artists are a class apart; classe grammaticale Ling grammatical class;
    6 gén class; ( rang) Admin grade; produits/champagne de première classe first-class products/champagne;
    7 ( élégance) class; avoir de la classe to have class; il a beaucoup de classe he has real class; ça, c'est la classe◑! now that's class ou style○!; c'est pas la classe◑! that's not very stylish!; elle est très classe◑ she's really classy○;
    8 Transp class; billet de première/seconde classe first-/second-class ou standard GB ticket; classe touristes/affaires economy ou tourist/business class; voyager en première classe to travel first class;
    9 Mil annual levy ou draft; la classe 1990 the 1990 levy ou draft; faire ses classes lit to do one's basic training; fig to start out; un cinéaste qui a fait ses classes à la télévision fig a film director who started out in television.
    classe d'adaptation special needs class; classe d'âge age group; classe de mer educational schooltrip to the seaside; classe de nature schooltrip to the countryside; classe de neige schooltrip in the mountains; classe de transition Scol remedial class; classe verte = classe de nature; les classes creuses age groups depleted by low birthrate; classes préparatoires (aux grandes écoles) preparatory classes for entrance to Grandes Écoles.
    ⓘ Classe de neige The classe de neige denotes the period of about a week which school classes spend in a mountain area when ski tuition is integrated with normal school work. The classe de nature or classe verte similarly refers to the week-long stay by school pupils in the countryside where nature study is integrated with normal school work.
    [klas] nom féminin
    A.[ÉDUCATION]
    1. [salle] classroom
    2. [groupe] class
    3. [cours] class, lesson
    a. [être enseignant] to teach
    b. [donner un cours] to teach ou to take a class
    4. [niveau] class, form (UK), grade (US)
    dans les grandes/petites classes in the upper/lower forms (UK)
    refaire ou redoubler une classe to repeat a year
    classes préparatoiresschools specializing in preparing pupils to take Grandes Écoles entrance exams
    B.[DANS UNE HIÉRARCHIE]
    1. [espèce] class, kind
    MATHÉMATIQUES & SCIENCES class
    [dans des statistiques] bracket, class, group
    2. [rang] class, rank
    3. POLITIQUE & SOCIOLOGIE class
    les classes moyennes/dirigeantes the middle/ruling classes
    billet de première/deuxième classe first-/second-class ticket
    classe affaires/économique AÉRONAUTIQUE business/economy class
    5. [niveau] quality, class
    6. [distinction] class, style
    avec classe smartly, with elegance
    C.[MILITAIRE] annual contingent
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    [klas] adjectif
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    classes nom féminin pluriel
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    en classe locution adverbiale
    a. [pour la première fois] to start school
    b. [à la rentrée] to go back to school, to start school again
    After the baccalauréat very successful students may choose to attend the classes préparatoires, intensive courses organized in lycées. Students are completely immersed in their subject and do little else than prepare for the competitive grandes écoles entrance exams. If they do not succeed, two years of prépas are considered equivalent to a DEUG, and these students often continue at a university.

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  • 9 -A

    or -AT or -T, a negative suffix to verbs, peculiar to Iceland and a part, at least, of Norway. Occurs frequently in old Icelandic poetry and laws, so as almost to form a complete negative voice. In the 1st pers. a personal pronoun k (g) = ek is inserted before the negative suffix, in the 2nd pers. a t or tt. As a rule the pron. as thus repeated; má-k-at-ek, non possum; sé-k-at-ek, non video; hef-k-at-ek, non habeo; skal-k-at-ek; vil-k-at-ek, nolo; mon-k-at-ek, non ero, etc.: 2nd pers. skal-t-at-tu; mon-t-at-tu; gaf-t-at-tu, non dabas: and after a long vowel a tt, mátt-at-tu, sátt-at-tu; so almost invariably in all monosyllabic verbal forms; but not so in bisyllabic ones, máttir-a-þú, non poteras: yet in some instances in the 1st pers. a pronominal g is inserted, e. g. bjargi-g-a-k, verbally servem ego non ego; höggvi-g-a-k, non cædam; stöðvi-g-a-k, quin sistam; vildi-g-a-k, nolui; hafði-g-a-k, non babui; mátti-g-a-k, non potui; görði-g-a-k, non feci: if the verb has gg as final radical consonants, they change into kk, e. g. þikk-at-ek = þigg-k-at-ek, nolo accipere. In the 3rd pers. a and at or t are used indifferently, t being particularly suffixed to bisyllabic verbal flexions ending in a vowel, in order to avoid an hiatus,—skal-at or skal-a, non erit; but skolo-t, non sunto: forms with an hiatus, however, occur,—bíti-a, non mordat; renni-a, ne currat; skríði-a, id.; leti-a, ne retardet; væri-a, ne esset; urðu-a, non erant; but bíti-t, renni-t, skríði-t, urðu-t are more current forms: v. Lex. Poët. The negative suffix is almost peculiar to indic., conj., and imperat. moods; the neg. infin. hardly occurs. Nothing analogous to this form is to be found in any South-Teutonic idiom; neither do there remain any traces of its having been used in Sweden or Denmark. A single exception is the Runic verse on a stone monument in Öland, an old Danish province, now Swedish, where however the inscriptions may proceed from a Norse or Icel. hand. The Runic inscriptions run thus, sa’r aigi flo, who did not fly, old Icel. ‘flo-at,’ Baut. 1169. Neither does it occur in any Norse prose monuments (laws): but its use may yet be inferred from its occurrence in Norse poets of the 10th century, e. g. the poets Eyvind and Thiodolf; some of which instances, however, may be due to their being transmitted through Icel. oral tradition. In Bragi Gamli (9th century) it occurs twice or thrice; in the Haustlöng four times, in Ynglingatal four times, in Hákonarmál once (all Norse poems of the 10th century). In Icel. the suffixed negation was in full force through the whole of the 10th century. A slight difference in idioms, however, may be observed: Völuspá, e. g., prefers the negation by né (using vas-at only once, verse 3). In the old Hávamal the suffix abounds (being used thirty-five times), see the verses 6, 10, 11, 18, 26, 29, 30, 34, 37–39, 49, 51, 52, 68, 74, 88, 113–115, 126–128, 130, 134, 136, 147, 149, 151, 153, 159. In Skírnismál, Harbarðsljóð, Lokasenna—all these poems probably composed by the same author, and not before the 10th century—about thirty times, viz. Hbl. 3, 4, 8, 14, 26, 35, 56; Skm. 5, 18, 22; Ls. 15, 16, 18, 25, 28, 30, 36, 42, 47, 49, 56, 60, 62. Egil (born circa 900, died circa 990) abounds in the use of the suffixed neg. (he most commonly avails himself of -at, -gi, or né): so, too, does Hallfred (born circa 968, died 1008), Einar Skálaglam in Vellekla (circa 940–995), and Thorarin in the Máhlíðingavísur (composed in the year 981); and in the few epigrams relating to the introduction of Christianity in Icel. (995–1000) there occur mon-k-að-ek, tek-k-at-ek, vil-k-at-ek, hlífði-t, mon-a, es-a; cp. the Kristni S. and Njala. From this time, however, its use becomes more rare. Sighvat (born circa 995, died 1040) still makes a frequent but not exclusive use of it. Subsequent poets use it now and then as an epic form, until it disappeared almost entirely in poetry at the middle or end of the 13th century. In the Sólarljóð there is not a single instance. The verses of some of our Sagas are probably later than the Sagas themselves; the greatest part of the Völsungakviður are scarcely older than the 11th century. In all these -at and conj. eigi are used indifferently. In prose the laws continued to employ the old forms long after they were abolished in common prose. The suffixed verbal negation was used,
    α. in the delivering of the oath in the Icel. Courts, esp. the Fifth Court, instituted about the year 1004; and it seems to have been used through the whole of the Icel. Commonwealth (till the year 1272). The oath of the Fifth (High) Court, as preserved in the Grágás, runs in the 1st pers., hefka ek fé borit í dóm þenna til liðs mér um sök þessa, ok ek monka bjóða, hefka ek fundit, ok monka ek finna, hvárki til laga né ólaga, p. 79; and again p. 81, only different as to ek hefka, ek monka (new Ed.): 3rd pers., hefirat hann fé; borit í dóm þenna ok monat hann bjóða, ok hefirat hann fundit, ok monat hann tinna, 80, 81; cp. also 82, and Nj. l. c. ch. 145, where it is interesting to observe that the author confounds the ist and 3rd persons, a sign of decay in grammatical form.
    β. the Speaker (lögsögumaðr), in publicly reciting and explaining the law, and speaking in the name of the law, from the Hill of Laws (lögberg), frequently employed the old form, esp. in the legal words of command es and skal (yet seldom in plur.): erat in the dictatorial phrases, erat skyldr (skylt), non esto obligatus; erat landeigandi skyldr, Grág. (Kb.) i. 17; erat hinn skyldr, 21; yngri maðr era skyldr at fasta, 35; enda erat honum þá skylt at …, 48; erat þat sakar spell, 127; era hinn þá skyldr at lýsa, 154; erat hann framar skyldr sakráða, 216; ok erat hann skyldr at ábyrgjask þat fé, 238; ok erat hann skyldr, id.; ok erat sakar aðili ella skyldr, ii. 74; erat hinn skyldr við at taka, 142; erat manni skylt at taka búfé, 143; enda erat heimting til fjár þess, 169; era hann þá skyldr at taka við í öðru fé nema hann vili, 209; ok erat þeim skylt at tíunda fé sitt, 211; ok erat hann skyldr at gjalda tíund af því, 212; erat kirkjudrottinn þá skyldr, 228; ef hann erat landeigandi, i. 136. Skalat: skalat maðr eiga fó óborit, i. 23; skalat homum þat verða optar en um siun, 55; skalat maðr ryðja við sjálfan sik, 62; skalat hann þat svá dvelja, 68; skalat hann til véfangs ganga, 71; skalat aðilja í stefnuvætti hafa, 127; ok skala hann gjalda fyrir þat, 135; ok skalat hann með sök fara, 171; enda skalat hann fleirum baugum bœta, 199; skalat hann skilja félagit, 240; skalat hann meiri skuld eiga en, ii. 4; skalat þeim meðan á brott skipta, 5; skalat hann lögvillr verða, svá, 34; skalat hon at heldr varðveita þat fé, 59; í skalat enn sami maðr þar lengr vera, 71; ok skala honum bæta þat, 79; skalat fyl telja, 89; skalat hann banna fiskför, 123; skalat hann lóga fé því á engi veg, 158; skalat drepa þá menn, 167; skalat svá skipta manneldi, 173; skalat maðr reiðast við fjórðungi vísu, 183. Plur.: skolut menn andvitni bera ok hér á þingi, i. 68; skolut mál hans standast, 71; skolut þeir færi til vefangs ganga en, 75, etc. etc. Other instances are rare: tekrat þar fé er eigi er til (a proverb), i. 9; ok um telrat þat til sakbóta, ok of telrat þá til sakbóta ( it does not count), 178; ef hann villat ( will not) lýsa sár sitt, 51; ok ræðrat hann öðrum mönnum á hendr þann úmaga, 248; ræðrat sá sínum ómögum á hendr, ii. 18; verðrat honum at sakarspelli and verðrat honum þat at s., i. 63; verðrat honum þat at sakarvörn, 149; kömrat hann öðru við, ii. 141; þarfat hann bíða til þess, i. 70; ok skilrat hann frá aðra aura, ii. 141, i. 136. Reflexive form: kömskat hann til heimtingar um þat fé, he loses the claim to the money, ii. 180, etc. All these instances are taken from the Kb. (Ed. 1853). Remarkable is also the ambiguity in the oath of Glum (see Sir Edm. Head, Viga-Glum, pp. 102, 103, note, I. c.), who, instead of the plain common formal oath—vask-at-ek þar, vák-at-ek þar, rauðk-at-ek þar odd ok egg—said, vask at þar, vák at þar, rauðk at þar. He inverted the sense by dropping the intermediate pronominal ek between the verb and þar, and pronouncing ‒ ‒́ instead of ‒́ ⏑. It further occurs in some few proverbs: varat af vöru, sleikði um þvöru, Fs. 159; veldrat sá er varir, Nj. 61 (now commonly ekki veldr sá er v., so in Grett.); erat héra at borgnara þótt hœna beri skjöld, Fms. vii. 116; era hlums vant kvað refr, dró hörpu á ísi, 19: also in some phrases, referred to as verba ipsissima from the heathen age—erat vinum líft Ingimundar, Fs. 39; erat sjá draumr minni, Ld. 128. Thorodd employs it twice or thrice: því at ek sékk-a þess meiri þörf, because í do not see any more reason for this, Skálda 167; kannka ek til þess meiri ráð en lítil, I do not know, id.; mona ( will not) mín móna ( my mammy) við mik göra verst hjóna, 163. In sacred translations of the 12th century it occurs now and then. In the Homilies and Dialogues of Gregory the Great: monatþu í því flóði verða, thou shalt not; esa þat undarligt þótt, it is not to be wondered at; hann máttia sofna, he could not sleep; moncaþ ek banna, I shall not mind, Greg. 51, 53; vasal kall heyrt á strætum, was not, Post. 645. 84; nú mona fríðir menn hér koma, Niðrst. 623. 7. In later writers as an archaism; a few times in the Al. (MS. A. M. 519), 3, 5, 6, 44, 108; and about as many times in the MS. Eirspennill (A. M. 47, fol.) [Etymon uncertain; that at is the right form may be inferred from the assimilation in at-tu, and the anastrophe in t, though the reason for the frequent dropping of the t is still unexplained. The coincidence with the Scottish dinna, canna is quite accidental.]

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  • 10 EK

    I) pers. pron. I;
    in poetry and old prose a pronominal k is suffixed to the verb, emk = em ek, vask = vas ek; sák = sá ek; mundak = munda ek; even if preceded by ek: ek sék, ek sitk; a preceding g becomes by assimilation k, hykk = hygg ek; the pronominal k is inserted between the suffixed negative, -a or -at, and the verb, sáka = sá ek-a, I saw not; veitka = veit ek-a, I know not.
    II) from aka.
    * * *
    pers. pron., mod. eg, proncd. ég or jeg; eg occurs as early as in MSS. of the 15th century, Arna-Magn. 556 A; jak, Fms. x. 287, cp. the mod. Swed. form and the mod. Icel. jeg; old poets make it rhyme with ek, as, Halldórr ok ek | höfum engi þrek, Korm. 154 (in a verse), cp. Ld. 108: [Ulf. ïk, but ek on the Golden horn and on the stone in Tune; A. S. ic; Engl. I; Germ. ich; old Swed. jak, mod. jag; Dan. jeg; cp. Lat. ego, Gr. ἐγώ]:—I, Nj. 10, 30, 132, etc.
    2. in poetry and old prose a pronominal ‘k or ‘g is suffixed to the verb; em’k búinn annan í at nefna, Grág. i. 103; ek em’k, 623. 56, Blas. 41, Mork. 89, 94, 99, 104, Vþm. 8, Ls. 14, Ad. 1, Post. 645. 33; jók’k, ‘I eked’ ( added), Íb. (pref.); vas’k þar fjórtán vetr, ch. 9; þá er ek var’k á bænum, Blas. 40, Hm. 12; ek bað’k, Post. 645. 54; ek kom’k, Skm. 18; ek sit’k, Mork. 168; ek finn’k, 141; ek nam’k, 73; sá’k, 75; ek sé’k ( video), 103, 168, Fms. xi. 110; mun’k-at ek, Mork. 50; svá ek vind’k, Hm. 156; ok rít’k á þessa lund, Skálda (Thorodd) 166; sjá’k ( sim), Mork. 183: g before k becomes by assimilation k, e. g. hyk’k = hygg’k, Skm. 5: the pronominal k is inserted between the suffixed negative and the verb, ek skal’k-a, hef’k-a, mon’k-a, sa’k-a, ma’k-a, veit’k-a, or skal’k-a ek, hef’k-a ek, etc.: even a double k after a diphthong, siá’kk ( sim), Mork. 89, 134, but chiefly in poetry with the suffixed negative, e. g. ek sé’kk-a: this form is obsolete, whereas the suffixed g (or k) in bisyllables or after a vowel is more freq.; svá at ek fæ’k eigi leyzt mik, Edda 20; er ek vilda’g helzt, Fms. xi. 146; eigi munda’k trúa, Edda 32; ef ek lifi ok mega’k ráða, 34; þá hafða’k bundit með gresjarni, id.; sem önga frægð muna’k af hljóta, 20; sýnda’k bæði þeim ok Sæmundi, Íb. (pref.); þá er ek var heima heyrða’k sagt, Edda 81; er ek aeva kenni’g, Hm. 164; draums ætli’g þér, Hdl. 7; þorða’g, Ad. 1; ræka’g, mætta’g, Stor. 8; sky’t ek ok ræ’k (ræ’g, v. l.), Fms. vi. 170 (in a verse); líkara at ek vitja’g hingat þessa heita, Eg. 319; næða’k (or næða’g), if I could reach, Eb. 70 (in a verse); at ek nemni þá menn alla ok beiði’g, Grág. ii. 317; vilja’k, I will, Ht. 1; þvíat ek ætla’g, Ó. H. 59; ok náða’k svá öllu ríki þeirra, 74; þvíat ek trúi’k yðr bezt, 88; ek setta’k, Mork. 62; flytta’k, 94; geri’k, heyrða’k, 36; mæli’g, 39; ek vetti’g, 175; tefli’g, 186; setta’g, lagða’g, id.; vilda’g, 193; vide Lex. Poët. and the word ‘-at’ [p. 2]: sometimes a double pronoun occurs, g and k, mátti’g-a’k, Og. 32; bjargi’g-a’k, Hm. 153; stöðvi’g-a’k, 151; hversu ek má’k, Fms. vi. 102; vide Lex. Poët. and Frump. 228 sqq.
    B. DAT. AND ACC. are from a different root:—dat. mér, [Ulf. mis; Germ. mir; lost in Dan.], Nj. 10, etc. etc.; acc. mik, mod. mig, which form occurs even in MSS. at the beginning of the 14th century, e. g. Hauks-bók: mek occurs now and then in MSS., e. g. O. H. L., N. G. L., Sks. B, else it is rare and obsolete, Al. 42, Ó. H. 107, [Ulf. mik; A. S. mec; Engl. me; Germ. mich; Dan. mig.] As the word is so common, we shall only mention the use of mik which is special to the Scandinavian tongue, viz. its use as a verbal suffix. The ancients had a double form for the reflexive; for 1st pers. -mk, i. e. mik suffixed to the plur. of the verb; for the 3rd pers. -sk, i. e. sik suffixed to sing. and plur. alike; thus, ek (vér) þykkjumk, I (we) seem to myself ( ourselves); but hann þykkisk, he seems to himself; þeir þykkjask, they seem to themselves: the -mk was later changed into -mz, or - mst of editions and mod. use; but this is a grammatical decay, as if both - mst and -st (þykjumst and þykist) arose from the same reflex. sik.
    1. the subject may be another person or thing (plur. or sing.) and the personal pronoun mik suffixed as object to the verb, a kind of middle voice found in very old poems, and where it occurs freq. it is a test of antiquity; in prose it is quite obsolete: jötna vegir stóðum’k yfir ok undir, the ways of giants (i. e. precipices) stood above and beneath me, Hm. 106; er lögðum’k arm yfir, the lass who laid her arms round me, 108; mögr hétum’k fögru, my son promised me fair, Egil; hilmir buðum’k löð (acc.), the king gave me leave, i. e. bade me, sing, Höfuðl. 2; úlfs bagi gáfum’k íþrótt, the wolf’s foe ( Odin) gave me the art ( poetry), Stor. 23; Ragnarr gáfum’k reiðar mána, R. gave me the shield, Bragi; þat erum’k sýnt, it is shewn to me, id.; stöndum’k ilmr fyrir yndi, the lass blights my joy, Kormak; hugr tjáðum’k, courage helped me, Egil; snertum’k harmr við hjarta, grief touches me to the heart, Landn.; stöndum’k til hjarta hjörr, the sword pierces me to the heart, Fm. i; feldr brennum’k, my cloak catches fire, Gm. 1; draum dreymðum’k, I dreamed a dream; grimt várum’k hlið, the gap ( breach) was terrible to me, Stor. 6; hálf ván féllum’k, half my hope failed me, Gráfeldar-drápa; heiðnir rekkar hnekðum’k, the heathen men turned me out, Sighvat; dísir hvöttum’k at, the ‘dísir’ hooted us, Hðm. 29; gumi görðum’k at vigi, the man made us fight, id.; lyst várum’k, it list me, Am. 74: very common is erum’k, ‘tis to me (us); erum’k van, I (we) have to expect; mjök erum’k tregt tungu at hræra, ‘tis hard for me to move the tongue, i. e. the tongue cleaves to my mouth, Stor. 1, 17, Ad. 16.
    2. sometimes oneself is the subject, freq. in prose and poetry, either in deponent verbs or as reflex. or recipr.; at vit skilim’k sáttir, Ó. H. 119; at vér komim’k, that we shall come, 85; finnum’k hér þá, 108; ef vér finnum’k, 111; ek skildum’k við Ólaf konung, 126; ef ek komum’k í braut, 140; sigrom’k, if I gain the victory, 206; æðrom’k, 214; ef ek öndum’k, if I die, Eg. 127; ek berum’k, I bear myself, Grág. ii. 57, Mork. passim; ek þykkjum’k, þóttum’k, ráðum’k, látum’k, setjum’k, bjóðum’k, skildum’k, kveljum’k, etc., = ek þykisk, þóttisk, ræðsk, lætsk, setsk, býðsk, skildisk, kvelsk, etc.: even at the present day the forms eg þykjumst, þóttumst are often used in writing; in other words the suffix - mst (-mk) is almost obsolete.
    β. the obsolete interjection er mik = I am; vel er mik, well is me (= ‘bless me!’), O. H. L. 71; æ er mik, ah me! 64; kendr er mik, I am known, 66: with a reflex. notion, hvat er mik at því, what is that to me? Skv. 1. 28; er mik þat undir frétt þeirri, that is my reason for asking, Grág. i. 19:—this ‘er mik’ is clearly the remains of the old erum’k.
    C. DUAL AND PLUR. also from a different root:
    1. dual vit, mod. við, a Norse form mit also occurs, Al. 170, 171, [cp. mi, Ivar Aasen]:—we two; gen. and dat. from a different root, okkar and okkr, [cp. Goth. ïggqis; A. S. inc and incer; O. H. G. inch and inchar; Ivar Aasen dikke and dykk]:—our.
    2. plur.:
    α. nom. vér and vær, the last form now obsolete, [Goth. veis; A. S. and Engl. we; Germ. wir; Dan. vi]:—we.
    β. gen. vár, mod. vor, Eg. 524, Fms. viii. 213, 398, etc.
    γ. dat. and acc. oss, [Goth. uns (acc.), unsis (dat.); A. S. us; Germ. uns; Swed. oss; Dan. os]:—us: it need only be noticed that in mod. familiar usage the dual—við, okkr, okkar—has taken the place of the plural, vér, oss; but that in written books the forms vér, oss are still in freq. use, except in light or familiar style; old writers, on the other hand, made a clear distinction both in speech and writing.

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  • 11 forma

    - my; -my; dat sg - mie; f
    form; ( do ciasta) baking tin; TECH mould (BRIT), mold (US)

    być w dobrej/złej formie — to be in good/bad shape lub form

    * * *
    f.
    1. ( kształt) form, shape; fantastyczna forma fanciful shape; nadać czemuś jakąś formę shape sth, give shape to sth; przedstawić coś w jakiejś formie represent sth in a/the form of; mieć/przybierać formę czegoś take the form of sth; transgeniczne formy roślin bot. transgenic plant forms.
    2. ( struktura) form; forma prawna legal form; forma własności ownership type; forma zastępcza compensation; forma biologiczna biol. biological form; forma bytu fil. form of being/existence.
    3. (= konwenanse) rules, etiquette; zachowywać formy towarzyskie observe the rules of social behavior; zrobić coś pro forma do sth as a matter of form.
    4. (= szablon) pattern, model.
    5. fil. form.
    6. druk. form(e).
    7. jęz. form; forma gramatyczna grammatical form; forma hiperpoprawna hypercorrection, hypercorrect form; forma osobowa czasownika personal verb form; formy koniugacyjne conjugational forms; formy deklinacyjne inflectional forms; forma ciągła progressive; forma częstotliwa frequentative; forma (nie)dokonana (im)perfective; forma oboczna alternant; forma ściągnięta contraction.
    8. mat. form, quantic; forma kwadratowa quadratic form, quadric.
    9. sport form, condition; być w dobrej formie be in good form l. shape; stracić formę lose form; odzyskać dobrą formę return to good form; utrzymywać dobrą formę keep fit; być nie w formie be off form; nie w formie out of condition l. form.
    10. sztuka form.
    11. techn. mold, matrix; forma odlewnicza mold; forma piekarska baking tin.

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  • 12 correcto

    adj.
    1 correct, accurate, precise.
    2 correct, proper, appropriate, right.
    3 correct, well-bred, polite, well-mannered.
    4 correct, suitable, appropriate, convenient.
    intj.
    1 right, correct, righto, just right.
    2 right, is that right.
    * * *
    1 (sin errores) correct, accurate
    2 (adecuado) suitable
    3 (educado) polite, courteous
    4 (conducta) proper
    * * *
    (f. - correcta)
    adj.
    correct, right
    * * *
    ADJ
    1) [respuesta] correct, right

    ¡correcto! — right!

    2) (=educado) [persona] correct; [conducta, comportamiento] courteous; [vestido] proper, fitting
    3) [rasgos] regular, well-formed
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( educado) correct, polite
    b) ( honesto) correct
    2)
    a) <respuesta/solución> correct, right

    correcto! — (AmC, Méx) (that's) right

    b) <funcionamiento/procedimiento> correct
    * * *
    = correct, polite, right, decorous, seemly, alright [all right], all right [alright], well-mannered, gentlemanlike.
    Ex. If an entry with cross-references or notes must be corrected, add the correct form and then delete the incorrect form.
    Ex. Events are not named according to what it is polite or ideal to call them, but according to what they are actually called by authorities in the field.
    Ex. The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex. One might be forgiven for assuming that the question of class did not impinge upon the decorous and even tenor of the average librarian's working week.
    Ex. They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex. The article 'The kids are alright?' presents some of the findings of the questionnaire study which had as its focus the qualitative impact of public libraries on children's reading.
    Ex. So the system apparently works all right and no one is suggesting that it needs a major overhaul.
    Ex. One should avoid giving less effort to the resolution of a problem presented by a calm, well-mannered individual than to those presented by loud, demanding, and persistent pests.
    Ex. Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
    ----
    * adoptar la postura moral correcta = take + the high ground, take + the high road.
    * camino correcto, el = way forward, the.
    * correcto políticamente = politically correct.
    * correcto y formal = prim and proper.
    * el camino correcto = the way to go.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * en posición correcta = the right way round.
    * estar correcto = be correct.
    * hacer lo correcto = do + the right thing.
    * la forma correcta de hacer las cosas = the way to go.
    * poco correcto = ungentlemanlike.
    * ser correcto = be all right, be correct, be right.
    * * *
    - ta adjetivo
    1)
    a) ( educado) correct, polite
    b) ( honesto) correct
    2)
    a) <respuesta/solución> correct, right

    correcto! — (AmC, Méx) (that's) right

    b) <funcionamiento/procedimiento> correct
    * * *
    = correct, polite, right, decorous, seemly, alright [all right], all right [alright], well-mannered, gentlemanlike.

    Ex: If an entry with cross-references or notes must be corrected, add the correct form and then delete the incorrect form.

    Ex: Events are not named according to what it is polite or ideal to call them, but according to what they are actually called by authorities in the field.
    Ex: The last figure I saw was 828, but you're in the right realm.
    Ex: One might be forgiven for assuming that the question of class did not impinge upon the decorous and even tenor of the average librarian's working week.
    Ex: They were the first cloth bindings that were intended to compete with paper boards as seemly but inexpensive covers for ordinary books.
    Ex: The article 'The kids are alright?' presents some of the findings of the questionnaire study which had as its focus the qualitative impact of public libraries on children's reading.
    Ex: So the system apparently works all right and no one is suggesting that it needs a major overhaul.
    Ex: One should avoid giving less effort to the resolution of a problem presented by a calm, well-mannered individual than to those presented by loud, demanding, and persistent pests.
    Ex: Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike: he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners.
    * adoptar la postura moral correcta = take + the high ground, take + the high road.
    * camino correcto, el = way forward, the.
    * correcto políticamente = politically correct.
    * correcto y formal = prim and proper.
    * el camino correcto = the way to go.
    * el + Nombre + correcto al + Nombre + adecuado en el momento oportuno = the right + Nombre + to the right + Nombre + at the right time.
    * en posición correcta = the right way round.
    * estar correcto = be correct.
    * hacer lo correcto = do + the right thing.
    * la forma correcta de hacer las cosas = the way to go.
    * poco correcto = ungentlemanlike.
    * ser correcto = be all right, be correct, be right.

    * * *
    A
    1 (educado, cortés) ‹comportamiento› correct, polite; ‹persona› correct, polite, well-mannered
    2 (honesto) correct
    B ‹respuesta/solución› correct, right
    lo dijo en un correcto alemán she said it in correct German
    ¿nos juntamos mañana? — ¡correcto, a las diez! ( AmC); so we're meeting tomorrow, then? — (that's) right, at ten
    C ‹funcionamiento/procedimiento› correct
    * * *

     

    Del verbo corregir: ( conjugate corregir)

    corregido, correcto es:

    el participio

    correcto
    ◊ -ta adjetivo


    ( honesto) honest
    b) ‹respuesta/solución› correct, right

    c) ‹funcionamiento/procedimiento› correct

    correcto,-a adjetivo
    1 (atento, educado) polite, courteous [con, to]
    (comportamiento) proper
    2 (sin fallos) correct
    ' correcto' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    bonita
    - bonito
    - correcta
    - doña
    - infante
    - bien
    - bueno
    - valer
    English:
    accurate
    - correct
    - pc
    - politically correct
    - proper
    - right
    - right-thinking
    - grammatical
    - socially
    * * *
    correcto, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [resultado, texto, respuesta] correct;
    habla un correcto francés she speaks correct French
    2. [persona, conducta] courteous;
    el agente de policía fue muy correcto con nosotros the police officer treated us very correctly;
    estos niños son muy correctos en la mesa these children have very good table manners
    ♦ interj
    right!, ok!
    * * *
    adj
    1 correct;
    políticamente correcto politically correct
    2 ( educado) polite
    * * *
    correcto, -ta adj
    1) : correct, right
    2) : courteous, polite
    * * *
    1. (sin faltas) correct
    2. (educado) polite

    Spanish-English dictionary > correcto

  • 13 πλάστιγξ

    πλάστιγξ, - ιγγος
    Grammatical information: f.
    Meaning: `scales' (Att.), also `disk of the kottabos-standard' (Critias, Hermipp.), metaph. `oystershell' (Opp.), `horsecollar' (which hangs from the wood of the yoke like the scales from the weighbridge; E. Rh. 303), also (in plur.) `surgical splints' (Hippiatr.).
    Other forms: πλήστιγγες pl. `id.' (Hp. ap. Gal. 19, 131).
    Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
    Etymology: Formation in - ιγγ- (Chantraine Form. 398ff., Schwyzer 498) from an unknown noun. As the designation of the scales (weighing-machine) and the Kottabosdisk is prob. to be derived from the flat form of it, one connects the root pelā- `broaden' (s. πλάξ). The nearest basis may be a noun *πλαστ(ο)-, which may stand for *πλατ-τ(ο)- (cf. on πλάτη), or for *πλαθ-τ(ο)- (s. πλάσσω). The usu. called "Ion." form πλήστιγ-γες which occurs once only, occurs only in a not quite clear specific meaning, can, if no derailment, represent a form πλᾱ-. -- On the debated πλάστιγξ A. Ch. 290 (for μάστιγξ?) s. Gentili Stud. itfilcl. N. S. 21, 105ff. -- Again, the form πλαθ- cannot be explained from IE; the suffix shows that he word is Pre-Greek (not in Furnée).
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  • 14 evьja

    evьja; evьn̨a Grammatical information: f. iā; f. jā Proto-Slavic meaning: `granary, drying shed'
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    Russian:
    évnja (W. dial.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    ëvnja (Psk.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    evnjá (dial.) `drying shed without a ceiling' [f jā]
    Belorussian:
    ëŭnja `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    éŭnja `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    jaŭja (dial.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā] \{1\}
    Ukrainian:
    jevja `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    jévnja `granary, drying shed' [f jā]
    Polish:
    jawia `granary, drying shed' [f jā] \{2\};
    jewnia (arch.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    jownia (arch.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā]
    Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: iouiaH
    Lithuanian:
    jáuja `granary, drying shed, threshing shed' [f ā] 1 \{3\}
    Latvian:
    jaũja `threshing floor' [f ā]
    Old Prussian:
    jauge `drying shed, barn for braking flax' \{4\}
    Indo-European reconstruction: ieu-iH-eh₂
    IE meaning: granary
    Certainty: +
    Page in Pokorny: 512
    Comments: It is evident that *evьja is a borrowing from Baltic. The Baltic word is a derivative of the word for `grain', Lith. javaĩ, which lacks a Slavic counterpart. The resyllabification of *iau̯-iā to *iau-i̯ā may account for the metatonical acute tone of both the Lithuanian and the Latvian form, if we assume that the original form was *iau̯-ìā. The East Slavic word *ovinъ apparently underwent the e- > o- shift (I do not share Andersen's objections to Trubačëv's Proto-Slavic reconstruction *evinъ, theoretical though it is).
    Other cognates:
    MoHG jauge (dial.) `barn'
    Notes:
    \{1\} The form without -n- has been recorded from 1540 onwards in many different shapes, e.g. ev'ja, jav'ja, evga and javga. According to Anikin (2005: 143), only the form jaŭja is known in the living language. The other forms are limited to areas that were inhabited by Lithuanians.\{2\} Since 1554 many variants have been recorded, e.g. jawia, jawgia, jewia, jowia. \{3\} There are many variants, viz. jáujė, jáujis, jáujas, jáujus. \{4\} The oldest source (1604) has the spelling jawyge (Toporov II: 21).

    Slovenščina-angleščina big slovar > evьja

  • 15 evьn̨a

    evьja; evьn̨a Grammatical information: f. iā; f. jā Proto-Slavic meaning: `granary, drying shed'
    Page in Trubačev: -
    Russian:
    évnja (W. dial.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    ëvnja (Psk.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    evnjá (dial.) `drying shed without a ceiling' [f jā]
    Belorussian:
    ëŭnja `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    éŭnja `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    jaŭja (dial.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā] \{1\}
    Ukrainian:
    jevja `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    jévnja `granary, drying shed' [f jā]
    Polish:
    jawia `granary, drying shed' [f jā] \{2\};
    jewnia (arch.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā];
    jownia (arch.) `granary, drying shed' [f jā]
    Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: iouiaH
    Lithuanian:
    jáuja `granary, drying shed, threshing shed' [f ā] 1 \{3\}
    Latvian:
    jaũja `threshing floor' [f ā]
    Old Prussian:
    jauge `drying shed, barn for braking flax' \{4\}
    Indo-European reconstruction: ieu-iH-eh₂
    IE meaning: granary
    Certainty: +
    Page in Pokorny: 512
    Comments: It is evident that *evьja is a borrowing from Baltic. The Baltic word is a derivative of the word for `grain', Lith. javaĩ, which lacks a Slavic counterpart. The resyllabification of *iau̯-iā to *iau-i̯ā may account for the metatonical acute tone of both the Lithuanian and the Latvian form, if we assume that the original form was *iau̯-ìā. The East Slavic word *ovinъ apparently underwent the e- > o- shift (I do not share Andersen's objections to Trubačëv's Proto-Slavic reconstruction *evinъ, theoretical though it is).
    Other cognates:
    MoHG jauge (dial.) `barn'
    Notes:
    \{1\} The form without -n- has been recorded from 1540 onwards in many different shapes, e.g. ev'ja, jav'ja, evga and javga. According to Anikin (2005: 143), only the form jaŭja is known in the living language. The other forms are limited to areas that were inhabited by Lithuanians.\{2\} Since 1554 many variants have been recorded, e.g. jawia, jawgia, jewia, jowia. \{3\} There are many variants, viz. jáujė, jáujis, jáujas, jáujus. \{4\} The oldest source (1604) has the spelling jawyge (Toporov II: 21).

    Slovenščina-angleščina big slovar > evьn̨a

  • 16 ἄλοξ

    ἄλοξ, - κος
    Grammatical information: f.
    Meaning: `furrow' (Trag., Com.).
    Other forms: Also αὖλαξ (Hes.), ὦλκα, - ας acc. sg., pl. (Hom.), Dor. ὦλαξ EM 625, 37and in ὁμ-ώλακες (A. R. 2, 396). Further εὑλάκᾱ `plough' with the Lacon. fut. inf. εὑλαξεῖν (Orac. ap. Th. 5, 16); and αὑλάχα ἡ ὕννις H. and *ὄλοκες (cod. ὀλοκεύς) αὔλακες H.
    Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]
    Etymology: The relation between these forms was unclear. Solmsen Unt. 258ff. explained ὦλκα from *ἄϜολκα ( κατὰ ὦλκα Ν 707 for original *κατ' ἄϜολκα); it is strange that this form did not live on. Beside *ἀ-Ϝολκ- the zero grade would give *ἀ-Ϝλακ- in αὖλαξ. The root was supposed in Lith. velkù, OCS vlěkǫ, Av. varǝk- `draw'; one could assume * h₂uelk-. This is tempting, but must not be correct. If the Balto-Slavic words are isolated (there is further only Av. vǝrǝc-), the verb may be non-IE; also it is rather * uelkʷ-, which makes the connection with Greek impossible; further there is no trace of the verb in Greek, which has ἔλκω \< *selk-. εὑλάκα can no longer be explained from different prothesis, *ἐ-Ϝλακ-. But ἄλοξ cannot be explained in this way: metathesis of *αϜολκ- would give *αυλοκ-; an after the F had disappeared, metathesis was no longer possible (only contraction to *ωλκ-). - I see no reason to reject ὀλοκ-. ὦλαξ was perhaps taken from a compound, like ὁμώλακ-, which would give *ολακ-. - Pisani JF 53, 29 derived αὖλαξ from αὑλός and separated it from ἄλοξ etc., which is improbable. - The variants are strongly reminiscent of substr. words, as Beekes Dev. 40 held (withdrawn ib. 275-7). Variation of prothetic ε\/α\/ο\/αυ\/ευ is typical of substr. words, as is κ\/χ ( αὐλάχα). So more probably we have to assume a substr. word. The start with the Homeric form was wrong: it is the only form that has no vowel between λ and κ, and is therefore suspect. If we assume labialised phonemes, like lʷ, a reconstruction * alʷak- gives all forms: αὖλαξ (by anticipation of the labial feature; which gives ὦλαξ by contraction), ἄλοξ (influence on the second vowel ; ὀλοκ- on both vowels), interchange α\/ε gave εὐλακ-; see Beekes Pre-Gr., and cf. ἀρασχάδες etc. Homer might have had *κατ' ὠλακ(α), which became unclear during the tradition.
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  • 17 ἀλώπηξ

    ἀλώπηξ, - εκος
    Grammatical information: f. (on the gender DELG).
    Meaning: `fox' (Archil.).
    Other forms: A shortened form is ἀλωπά (Alc.), ἀλωπός (Hdn.); on its origin Sommer Nominalkomp. 5 A. 5. Denom. ἀλωπεύει ἀνιχνεύει H., cf. NGr. (Crete) λαγονεύω `trace' from λαγώς, Kukules Άρχ. Έφ. 27, 70f.
    Derivatives: ἀλωπεκέη, -ῆ `fox-skin' (Hdt.); ἀλωπεκία a disease of the skin (Arist.); ἀλωπεκίς f. = κυναλώπηξ (X.), also `head-gear from fox-skin' (X.) and `kind of vine' (Plin.), s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 139
    Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1179?] * h₂lop- `fox'
    Etymology: ἀλώπηξ can agree with Arm. aɫuēs, gen. - esu `fox'. Cf. further Lith. lãpė and Latv. lapsa. Schrijver, JIES 26, 1998, 421-434 connects the Celtic words W. llywarn etc., which he derives from * lop-erno-, and reconstructs * h₂lop-. The Greek long ō is explained from an old nom. * h₂lōp-s. (Skt. lopāśá- `jackal' and MP rōpās `fox' have an orig. diphthong in the root and cannot be connected. Lat. volpes `fox', Lith. vilpišỹs `wild cat' should also be kept apart; Schrijver starts from a root * ulp-). - The inflection ἀλώπηξ, - εκος is unique in Greek. There is no support for Rix's - ōk-s, - ek-os (1976,, 143). In the Armenian form, the ē presents difficulties and is prob. secondary, the word rather showing old short e; Clackson 1994, 95. De Vaan, IIJ 43, 2000, 279-293, disconnects the suffix from the Indo-Ir. one (as above the words were disconnected) and doubts that Skt. -āśa- etc. is of IE origin. He follows Chantr. Form. 376, in assuming that the Greek (and Armenian) suffix - ek- was taken from a non-IE language; Greek would have lengthened the vowel in the nominative. But this does not explain the Greek ablaut: one would expect that the long vowel was introduced everywhere. Rather the suffixes are IE, and the long vowel of Saskrit and the short of Armenian confirm the Greek ablaut as archaic. - See also Blažek, Linguistica Baltica 7, 1998, 25-31. Cf. Nehring Glotta 14, 184, Lidén KZ 56, 212ff., Fraenkel KZ 63, 189f., Hermann KZ 69, 66.
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  • 18 ἱλάσκομαι

    Grammatical information: v.
    Meaning: `appease, be merciful', perf. intr. and aor. pass. `be gracious' (Il.)
    Other forms: rarely ἵλαμαι (h. Hom. 19, 48; 21, 5; inf. ἵλασθαι Orph. A. 944; on the quantity of the anlauts s. below), ἱλάονται (Β 550, ἱλάεσθαι A. R. 2, 847); aor. ἱλάσ(σ)ασθαι (Il.), ἱλάξασθαι (Delph., A. R.), pass. ἱλασθῆναι (LXX); fut. ἱλάσ(σ)ομαι (Pl., Orac. ap. Paus. 8, 42, 6), ἱλάξομαι (A. R.); perf. ipv. Aeol. ἔλλαθι (gramm., B. 10, 8), pl. ἔλλατε (Call. Fr. 121); besides ἵλᾰθι, ἵλᾰτε (Theoc., A. R.), ἵληθι (γ 380, π 184), cf. below; subj. ἱλήκῃσι (φ 365), opt. ἱλήκοι etc. (h. Ap. 165, AP, Alciphr.),
    Compounds: Also with prefix, esp. ἐξ-,
    Derivatives: ἐξίλασις, ( ἐξ-)ἱλασμός (LXX), ἱλασία (inscr. Rom. empire), ( ἐξ-)ἵλασμα `appeasement, expiatory sacrifice' (LXX), ἱλάσιμος `appeasing' (M.Ant.; after ἰάσιμος a. o., Arbenz Die Adj. auf - ιμος 93), ἱλαστήριος `appeasing', - ιον `propitiatory gift' (LXX, pap.), also (analog.) ἱλατήριον ( Chron. Lind.), ἱλαστής `appeaser' (Aq., Thd.) with ἐξιλαστικός (Corn.). - Older formations: 1. ἵλαος (ep. Arc.; on the quantity of the α below), ἵλεως (Att., also Ion.), ἵλεος (Cret. since IIIa, also Hdt.), hιλέ̄Ϝο̄ι dat. (Lac., IG 5: 1, 1562, VI-Va), ἴλλαος (Aeol., gramm.) `merciful, benevolent'; Arc. `appeased'; denomin. verb ἱλαόομαι ( ΜΑΜΑ 1, 230), ἱλεῶμαι, ἱλεόομαι (A. Supp. 117 [lyr.], Pl.; cf. Schulze Kl. Schr. 324f.) `appease' with ἱλέωσις (Plu.), ἱλεωτήριον (Phot., Suid.). 2. ἱλαρός `clear, glad', also = ἵλεως (Ar., X.) with ἱλαρότης, ἱλαρία, ἱλαρόω, - ρύνω, - ρεύομαι (hell.); Lat. loan hilarus, -is. 3. ἰλλάεις, - εντος (Alc.), ἱλᾶς, - ᾶντος (Hdn. Gr., H.) = ἴλλαος, ἵλαος and lengthened (cf. Schwyzer 527). 4. ἱλάειρα f. of φλόξ and σελήνη (Emp.; quantity changing, cf. below), also ἑλάειρα (sch., Steph. Byz.) and ΕΛΕΡΑ (Kretschmer Vas. 208; s. also Schulze Kl. Schr. 716), innovation after πίειρα, κτεάτειρα, Δάειρα etc., Chantr. Form. 104, Schwyzer 543.
    Origin: IE [Indo-European] [900] * selh₂- `make favourable'
    Etymology: Decisive for the interpretation of these forms is the Aeol. imperative ἔλλαθι, ἔλλατε, for *σε-σλα-θι, - τε and so like τέ-τλα-θι, ἕ-στα-θι, δείδιθι = δέ-δϜι-θι to be seen as a perfect form. Die metrisch feststellbare Länge des α in ἔλλᾱθι bei B. 10, 8 muß wie in ἵλᾱος (s. unten) sekundär sein. The agreeing IA *εἵλαθι, of which the reduplication was no longer recognizable, was after φάνηθι etc. replaced by εἵληθι ἵλεως γίνου H. Another center of the formations was the reduplicated present ἱ̄λάσκομαι \< *σι-σλᾰ́-σκομαι, of which the anlauting vowel-length was introduced in other forms: perf. subj. and opt. ἱλήκῃσι, ἱλήκοι for *εἱλ- (ind. *εἵληκα like εἴρηκα, τέ-τλη-κα), perh. also in ἵλᾰθι, - τε and Hom. ἵληθι (cf. εἵληθι H.), (or from *σι-σλη-θι). Also in the aorist- and future-forms ἱλάσ(σ)ασθαι, ἱλάξασθαι, ἱλάσσομαι, ἱλάξομαι the length was introduced; beside it there is short in ἱλάσσεαι (Α 147), ἱλασσάμενοι (Α 100), ἵλαμαι (h. Hom.; but ἵ̄λασθαι Orph.), ἱλάομαι, also in ἱλαρός and ἱλάειρα (Emp. 85). The short ῐ- which is ununderstandable, may replace the ε- ( ἑλάειρα [s. above], *ἕλαμαι, *ἑλαρός) after ἱλάσκομαι. - Also ἵληϜος, ἵλεως, ἵλᾰος from reduplicated *σι-σλη-, σι-σλᾰ-. The old ablaut selǝ-: sleh₁-: slǝ- (cf. telǝ-: tlā-: tlǝ- in τελα-μών: ἔ-τλᾱ-ν: τέ-τλᾰ-θι) of which sla- is analog. - More on the Greek forms (after Froehde a. a. O., Solmsen KZ 29, 350f., Schulze Q. 466f., Bechtel Lex. 175ff., Wackernagel Unt. 81) in Schwyzer 281, 681, 689 w. n. 2, 710, 800 etc., Chantr. Gramm. hom. 1, 13; 22; 299; 427 etc. - Fundamental is Klingenschmitt, MSS 28 (1970) 75-88, who showed that Arm. aɫač`em `pray' \< *slh₂-ske\/o- is the closest relative. The Greek form goes back on *si-slh₂-ske\/o-; the aorist would have been * selh₂-s- of which the initial has been influenced by the present.
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  • 19 λᾶας

    Grammatical information: m. (late also f.),
    Meaning: `stone'; as GN (Laconia) Λᾱ̃ς and Λᾶ (Th., Paus., St.Byz. a.o.; acc. Λᾰ́ᾱν Β 585).
    Other forms: gen. etc. λᾱ̃-ος, -ι, - αν (-α Call.), pl. λᾶ-ες etc. (Il.); also as ο-stem λᾶος, - ου etc. (Hes.Fr. 115[?], S., Cyrene, Gortyn; details in Schwyzer 578),
    Dialectal forms: Myc. raeja \/lāh-ejā\/ and Cypr. laos show that the word did not have a -w-.
    Compounds: Compp., e. g. λᾱ-τόμος (beside uncontracted or restored λαο-) `stone-cutter' with λᾱτομ-ίαι `quarry' (= Lat. lātomiae beside lautumiae \< *λαο-; s.W.-Hofmann s. v.), Arg., Syracus., hell. (Ruijgh L'élém. ach. 125f.); λα(ο)-ξό(ο)ς with λαξεύω etc. (Georgacas Glotta 36, 165 f.), λατύπος; as 2. member in κραταί-λεως (\< -*ληϜος or -*λᾱϜος; cf. below) `with hard rock' (A., E.), prob. also in ὑπο-λαΐς, - ίδος (H. also - ληΐς) f. name of an unknown bird (Arist.); cf. Thompson Birds s.v.; s. also 2. λαιός.
    Derivatives: λάϊγγες f. pl. `small stones' (Od., A. R.; on the formation Chantraine Formation 399; wrong Specht Ursprung 127; s. also below); λάϊνος, - ΐνεος `(of) stone' (Il.); uncertain λαιαί f. pl. (Arist.), λεῖαι (Gal.), sg. λεία (Hero) `the stones used as weights hanging from the upright loom'; unclear λαίεται καταλεύεται H. and λαυστήρ μοχθηρός... η οἴκου λαύρα, λαύστρανον τινες λύκον, τινες φρέατος ἅρπαγα H.; hypotheses by Jokl Rev. int. ét. balk. 1,46ff.
    Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]
    Etymology: On λαύρα and λεύω s. vv. The unique stemformation of λᾶας is unexplained. One supposes an old neuter with sec. transition to the masc. (fem.) after λίθος, πέτρος (Brugmann IF 11, 100 ff.). The further evaluation is quite uncertain. After Brugmann orig. nom.-acc. *λῆϜας (\< IE. *lēu̯ǝs-; on the full grade cf. λεύω and λεῖαι), gen., dat. etc. *λᾰ́Ϝᾰσ-ος, -ι (IE. *lǝu̯ǝs-os, -i) \> λᾶ-ος, -ι, to which analogically the nom. λᾶ-ας was formed. The simpler assumption, that only the vowellength in λᾶας (for older *λᾰ́Ϝας) was taken from (gen.) λᾶ-ος etc., is rejected by B. Metrical objections against a contraction of *λᾰ́Ϝᾰσ-ος, -ι to λᾶ-ος, -ι by Ruijgh l.c.; he prefers, with Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 211 to see in λᾶ-ος, -ι etc. an (unenlarged) consonant-stem λᾱϜ-. Who accepts these, not decisive, objections but also does not want to assume heteroclis, might assume a full grade monosyllabic oblique stem *λᾱϜσ- (beside *λᾰϜᾰσ-). The abandoning of the old σ-flection was anyhow connected with the gender-change. - Quite diff. Pedersen Cinq. decl. lat. 44ff. (with de Saussure Rec. 587 f.): λᾶας old masc. ablauting ā-stem: *λᾱϜᾱ-: λᾱϜ(ᾰ)- \< IE. * leh₂ueh₂-: *leh₂u̯(h₂)-; the supposed full grade -ā- (*- eh₂-) is however quite hypothetical, but it would nicely explain the absence of the root-vowel in the inflection; followed by Beekes, Origins (1985)15-17. - The word λᾶας was apparently unknown to Ion.-Attic (Wackernagel Hell. 9 f., Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1,22; doubts in Björck Alpha impurum 69 and 76 n. 1); Ion.-Att. form shows κραταί-λεως (or only poetical analogy after λαός: Μενέ-λεως a.o.?); thus the free-standing λεύω (s. v.). Connections to λᾶας outside Greek are rare and not without doubt. First Alb. lerë, -a `stone, heap of stones, stony plain, rockslope' from IE. *lā̆uerā (Jokl Rev. int. et. balk. 1, 46ff.; to λαύρα?, s.v.); Illyr. PN Lavo f. prop. "which belongs to the rock (stone)" (from * lava `stone'; Krahe ZNF 19, 72; Spr. d. Illyr. 1,69 f.). One considers further the orig. Celtic Lat. lausiae f. `small stones from stone-cuttings', s. W.-Hofmann s. v. The suffixal agreement between λάϊγγες and OIr. līe, gen. līac (\< Celt. *līu̯ank-; cf. Pok. 683 against Loth Rev. celt. 44, 293; also Lewy Festschr. Dornseiff 226 f.) is no doubt accidental. Further uncertain combinations in Bq, WP. 2, 405 ff., W.-Hofmann s. lausiae. - For Aegaean origin also Chantraine Formation 421, Güntert Labyrinth 5,9. - Since the Myc. form shows that there was no -w- in the form, we must assume *lāh- (but not from *lās-, as the -s- would have been retained. Hence the relation to λεύω, λαύρα has become quite unclear. See Heubeck, IF 66 (1961) 29-34. Fur. 329 compares λέπας; he considers (n. 53) λαίνθη λάρναξ λιθίνη Cyr. as proof of Pre-Greek origin.
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  • 20 μήν 2

    μήν 2
    Grammatical information: m.
    Meaning: `month' (Il.), also `moon-sickle (Ion., Ar., Att. inscr., Thphr.).
    Other forms: also Att. μείς, Dor. μής, El. μεύς, gen. μηνός, Aeol. μῆννος.
    Compounds: Compp., e.g. μηνο-ειδής `with the form of a moonsickle' (IA.), PN Μηνό-δωρος, also μηνί-αρχος, - άρχης m. `monthly commander' (pap. IVa; after ταξί-αρχος a. o.); ἠλιτό-μηνος `missing the month' (T118; cf. s. v.), ἐπι-μήν-ιος `lasting a month, montly' (IA.; hypostasis); on - μην- as 2. member Sommer Nominalkomp. 55ff.
    Derivatives: μήν-η `month' (Il.; like σελήνη, cf. Güntert Reimwortbildungen 220, Risch $35d), - άς `id.' (E.); μην-ίσκος m. `moonsickle', esp. name of several moonsickle-formed objects (Ar., Arist.); μην-ιαῖος `a month old, monthly' (Hp., LXX, pap.), - ιεῖος `monthly' (hell. pap.; Chantraine Form. 49 u. 53), μην-αῖος `belonging to the month' (Orac. ap. Lyd. Mens.; prob. from μήνη); μηνιαστεία f. `monthly achievement' (pap. IIIp), but cf. Μηνιασταί m. pl. ` adorers of Μήν' (Rhodos); μήνιον n. plantname, `peony' (Ps.-Dsc.), for the astrological use, Strömberg Pflanzennamen 133.
    Origin: IE [Indo-European] [731] *meh₁nōt, * meh₁n-es-s `moon, month'
    Etymology: From the Aeol. cas. obl., gen. μῆνν-ος for *μηνσ-ος etc., arose an analog. nom. *μηνς, from which with vowelshortening *μενς, through loss of the nasal and comp. lengthening μείς, resp. μής. To μην-ός etc. (with simplification of the νν) arose μήν, after Ζηνός: Ζεύς El. μεύς. -- Beside the obl. stem *μηνσ- \< IE * mēns- there was originally in the nom. a disyllabic * mēnōs- with lengthened grade or (with alternating -t-) * mēnōt-, from which came Lith. mė́uo `moon, month', Germ., e.g. Goth. menoÞs `month'. The disyllabic form (with full grade) is seen alo in Lith. mė́es-is `month'. On monosyllabic * mēns- are based both Lat. mens-is (gen. pl. mens-um) as (with loss of the -n-) Skt. mās- `moon, month'. The development of the calendrical meaning `month' was accompanied by the creation of new expressions for `monyh' ( σελήνη, luna etc.). Original connection with meh₁-'measure' (s. μῆτις) because of the role of the moon as time-measure is quite possible. -- Further forms WP. 2,271f., Pok. 731f., W.-Hofmann s. mēnsis, Fraenkel s. meṅ́uo, Scherer Gestirnnamen 61 ff.. On the Greek forms Schwyzer 279f., 286, 515 w. n. 5, 569, Leumann Hom. Wörter 288 n. 41.
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