Replying to LO28993 --
Replying to LO28993 (At de Lange) and LO28988 (Malcom Burson)
Dear LO'ers, dear At and Malcom,
Thank you both for the correct etymological root of the word *passion* -
suffering. My tentative connection with 'fitting', or 'matching' is far
away from the truth. But could you imagine that I feel much better with my
wrong thoughts than knowing what is correct? Even now I know my happy
thoughts were based on a wrong foundation, I still be happy.
Maybe I should tell you how these happy thoughts originated. Probably At
will know, because Afrikaans and Dutch have so much similarities -
*passion* reminded me to the Dutch verb *passen* which means to fit, or to
match. And after that thought connection, I saw suddenly the mean theme in
At's original contribution on this subject.
There is another Dutch word whith *pas* in its root but with another
meaning. It is related to the English verb *to pass*, moving away, moving
from an earlier position to a farther position in respect of the observer.
In Dutch we have the same sort of verb and it is also present in *pas*
which means *foot step*.
Although it is probably wise if I let my original and wrong thoughts pass
away, but I beg you - please, let me hug these thoughts, because they make
me happy - passionate; otherwise I will suffer too much :-)))
Leo Minnigh
--leo minnigh <minnigh@dds.nl>
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