HISTNEUR-L: The History of Neuroscience Internet Forum

Re: words, words, words

• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 11:10:35 -0500 (EST)
• To: histneur-l@library.ucla.edu
• From: Christopher Green <christo@yorku.ca>
• Subject: Re: words, words, words
• Message-ID: Pine.GSO.3.96.980129110743.8262E-100000@sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca

Interesting the way the meanings of words "creep". As I recall (I don't
have my Greek lexicon handy), _legein_ originally (well, prior to Thales)
meant "something heard", and only later shifted to come to mean "word",
"meaning", "account", or "study" in the form of _logos_ (the root of the
-logy suffix of so many disciplinary names).

Regards,

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