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To: Graystone who wrote (10484)	1/4/1998 1:05:00 AM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 39621

God is an English word. From the Oxford English Dictionary Etymology for the word God "The ulterior etymology is disputed, apart from the unlikley hypothesis of adoption fom some foreign tongue the O. Teut. " gudo" implies, as its pre Teut. type either "ghudo-m" or "ghuto-m". The former does not appear to admit of explanation ; but the latter would represent the neut. of the passive participle of a root "gheu~". There are two Aryan roots of the required form (both * g heu, with palatal aspirate): one meaning "to invoke" (Skr hu), the other "to pour, to offer sacrifice"....Either of these conjectures is fairly plausible as they both yield a sense practically coincident with the most obvious definition deducible from the actual use of the word, "an object of worship". Please feel free to correct this post according to whatever tenets you hold dear. "Knowledge is a shoreless ocean in which the knower's soul is a signpost" Intimate Conversations