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| Linglot Bilingual Octoglot Newbie Spain Joined 6052 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, French, English, Esperanto, Portuguese, Italian, Galician Studies: Russian, German, Occitan, Greek, Basque, Romanian, Polish, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 9 of 9 02 August 2008 at 1:18pm | IP Logged |
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Well, I think the relationship between time and natural phenomena has always been strong. After all, the word 'weather' in English comes from a word for 'storm wind, tempest'. In primitive Latin, 'tempestas' was also used for 'time'. And the word that should have been used for time in English, 'tide' (Zeit in German, tijd in Dutch), is nowadays used for a 'time of high water'.
All these relationships make sense when you think of the ways in which time has been measured before the invention of watches. This is also seen in the relationship of 'moon' and 'month' in many languages (and 'sun' and 'day' in a few others). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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