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Viable

Postby William Hupy » Fri Nov 10, 2017 10:18 am

We grabbed this from French, which inherited this from Latin...but wait, there’s more. The PIE root gwei, means, not surprisingly, to live.
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Re: Viable

Postby Slava » Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:15 am

Curiously, at least to me, PIE gwei also became bio-, as in biology and all those other such words. It also turns up as the zoo- of another family of words, like zodiac. Fitting for a word that means life, eh?
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Re: Viable

Postby bbeeton » Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:35 am

Then, whence "viaduct" ("vydock" in Balamerese)? Or just "via"?
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Re: Viable

Postby Slava » Sun Nov 05, 2023 11:48 am

Then, whence "viaduct" ("vydock" in Balamerese)? Or just "via"?

That's from PIE wegh-, which also became 'way'. Touched upon in the treatment of impervious. Viaticum, invoice, and devious/deviate/deviant took the same path, too.
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