Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

rē-

PIE base ‘to bestow, endow’.

Derivatives include Reality, real, reify, rebus, re ‘concerning’, and republic ‘things, affairs, and matters concerning the people’, from Latin rēs ‘thing’, but not generally agreed among linguists.

[Pokorny *rei-4 : rēi-, ‘thing, possession’, p. 860.]

Glossary terms for this common ancestor to be added.