psephos is cognate with pebble

1%homeless · Post by **1%homeless** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:37 am

The Old English word for pebble is papol- from papolstan. In Doric, psephos is psaphos. Ok, they are probably not cognate, but I haven't found anything to say otherwise... I can understand that Latin 'habere' is not cognate with the English 'have' because it's well documented, but this is frustrating because of the scant information...

Lucus Eques · Post by **Lucus Eques** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:34 pm

I think your instincts are fundamentally right.

As for habere vs. have â€” they are eventually[/u] cognate, if you go far back enough into proto-Italic and proto-Germanic â€” it's really not a coincidence. The same is probably true of pebble.

P.S. Love the Optimus Prime quote!