Authority Cited: Wachter
Author name and dates: Johann Georg Wachter (1673-1757)
BKG Bio-tweet: German philologist, lexicographer; posited connections to Phrygian based on Greek records before Phrygian inscriptions known
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary); [BKG Note: One Wachter cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. in etymolology for bake. One apparent Wachter cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. in etymolology for spy. No additional Wachter cites identified in the 1773 Dict. SJ cites were likely from one of the titles below.]
Glossarium germanicum, continens origines & antiquitates totius linguae germanicae, et omnium pene vocabulorum, vigentium et disitorum. Opus bipartitum et quinque indicibus instructum Johannis Georgii Wachteri v. 1-2, 1737, Lipsiae, apud J.F. Gleditschii b. filium; bake
Dict: "supposed by Wachter to come from bec, which, in the Phrygian language, signified bread."
See image of Wachter Backen entry below.
OR Glossarivm germanicvm continens origines et antiqvitates lingvae germanicae hodiernae: specimen ex ampliore farragine decerptvm, auctore Jo. Georg Wachtero, reg. societ. scient. berol consorte, 1727, Lipsiae, Sumptibus Jacobi Shusteri; spy
Dict.: "SPY (SPY) n.s.[yspio, Welsh; espion, French; spie, Dutch; speculator, Latin. It is observed by a German, that spy has been in all ages a word by which the eye, or office of the eye, has been expressed: thus the Arimaspians of old, fabled to have but one eye, were so called from ari, which, among the nations of Caucasus, still signifies one, and spi, which has been received from the old Asiatick languages for an eye, sight, or one that sees.]"
See image below of Wachter entry for Spaehen, p. 290.
Author name and dates: Johann Georg Wachter (1673-1757)
BKG Bio-tweet: German philologist, lexicographer; posited connections to Phrygian based on Greek records before Phrygian inscriptions known
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary); [BKG Note: One Wachter cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. in etymolology for bake. One apparent Wachter cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. in etymolology for spy. No additional Wachter cites identified in the 1773 Dict. SJ cites were likely from one of the titles below.]
Glossarium germanicum, continens origines & antiquitates totius linguae germanicae, et omnium pene vocabulorum, vigentium et disitorum. Opus bipartitum et quinque indicibus instructum Johannis Georgii Wachteri v. 1-2, 1737, Lipsiae, apud J.F. Gleditschii b. filium; bake
Dict: "supposed by Wachter to come from bec, which, in the Phrygian language, signified bread."
See image of Wachter Backen entry below.
OR Glossarivm germanicvm continens origines et antiqvitates lingvae germanicae hodiernae: specimen ex ampliore farragine decerptvm, auctore Jo. Georg Wachtero, reg. societ. scient. berol consorte, 1727, Lipsiae, Sumptibus Jacobi Shusteri; spy
Dict.: "SPY (SPY) n.s.[yspio, Welsh; espion, French; spie, Dutch; speculator, Latin. It is observed by a German, that spy has been in all ages a word by which the eye, or office of the eye, has been expressed: thus the Arimaspians of old, fabled to have but one eye, were so called from ari, which, among the nations of Caucasus, still signifies one, and spi, which has been received from the old Asiatick languages for an eye, sight, or one that sees.]"
See image below of Wachter entry for Spaehen, p. 290.
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