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Re: Paleo-etymology

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by: Daud Deden - Sun, 21 Aug 2022 19:14 UTC

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=55798#more-55798

Garble: sift & select, remove adulterants from spices, PIE *krei sieve Ltn cribrum XYUAmBU (+M)
Xyuambuatl njambua njama @mbuti: thicket

krei-
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to sieve," thus "discriminate, distinguish." [Distill?]

It forms all or part of: ascertain; certain; concern; concert; crime; criminal; crisis; critic; criterion; decree; diacritic; discern; disconcert; discreet; discriminate; endocrine; excrement; excrete; garble; hypocrisy; incertitude; recrement; recriminate; riddle (n.2) "coarse sieve;" secret; secretary.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Greek krinein "to separate, decide, judge," krinesthai "to explain;" Latin cribrum "sieve," crimen "judgment, crime," cernere "to sift, distinguish, separate;" Old Irish criathar, Old Welsh cruitr "sieve;" Middle Irish crich "border, boundary;" Old English hriddel "sieve"
- Nice fit.