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Originally Posted by Asta Kask
In my study of Indo-European I have now found the word for conspiracy (jalos), conspirator (joros), and conspire (janeumi). You can freely drag your big conspiracies back to ca 2500 - 3000 BC or maybe even farther. :)
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Personally, I like the *spir Italic root of 'conspire'. After all the root *spir means 'breathe' (as in 'expire' "the breath comes out", 'respiration' "the act of breathing again", and so on...) so that 'conspire' means "to breathe together".
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09-22-2012, 02:44 PM
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