Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Alliance for Mystical Pragmatics

Harmonizing Evolutionary Convergence

Glossary Menus

se-

PIE base pronoun of the third person and reflexive (referring back to the subject of the sentence), and as s(w)e- further appearing in various forms referring to the social group as an entity, ‘(we our-)selves’.

Derivatives include sever and secret ‘known to oneself’, from Latin secretus ‘separate, set apart’, from secernere ‘to separate, part’, from se-, word-forming element ‘without, apart, aside’, probably originally ‘by one’s self, on one’s own’, and cernere ‘sift, distinguish, separate’.

[Pokorny *se- ‘self, one’s own’, pp. 882–884.]

separate

We can see the great paradox of the universal spiritual journey from the etymology of separate, which derives from Latin se- ‘apart’ and the PIE base *perə ‘to produce’, which is the root of Latin parēns ‘parent’ and pārēre ‘to bring forth, produce, give birth; appear, become evident; obey’.