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Semantic Notes to Latin *swerō ‘Speak‘

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Norman W. DeWitt
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Language , Volume 12 , Issue 3: July-September , September 1936, pp. 190 - 192
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Copyright © 1936 Linguistic Society of America

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a [For the phonology cf. Walde, Gesch. d. idg. Sprachw. 2.1.172; others would assume a base with doublet form *s(w)er-. GMB]

b [The statement seems too sweeping; but phonologically sors can come from *swṛtis. GMB]

1 De N.D. 2.2.6; 3.6.15; Aen. 7.81,102,254, where oracula, responsa, and sors refer to the same thing.

c [Kent suggests a better explanation: *dissértos > disertus by the law of mamilla; it is so detached in meaning from dissero that an analogic *dissertus is not to be expected. GMB]

2 Psalm 119.106.

3 Livy 8.6–7.

4 Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch2; Heidelberg, Carl Winter, 1910.

5 Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine; Paris, Klincksieck, 1932.

6 De R.R.1.17.1.