The same word exists in Persian: Raast, meaning right (as in right vs left) straight (vs crooked or bent, also as going straight forward) or true/truth (vs. false or lies).
You give "honest, dependable, trustworthy" as translations for "aufrichtig", but I presume you could also have chosen the synonym "upright" as a very direct one-to-one parallel! (also "upstanding" and "stand-up" along the same lines in regard to someone's character)
Eben kam mir der Gedanke, daß Beichte und beichten auch von der gleichen Wurzel kommen wie "Bericht, berichten". Das habe ich nun zum ersten mal von der rein sprachlichen Seite betrachtet....
@@loquidity4973 Sprachliches Wissen und Möglichkeiten scheinen mir fast unendlich zu sein. Je mehr ich mich damit beschäftige je größer die Erkenntnisse und Möglichkeiten die sich ergeben und anbieten.
Man, did you ever pick something complicated: I remember my youthful experience as Zimmerman in Germany: When all wooden parts of a roof construction and the joists for a ceiling/floor were ready to assemble at the jobsite, it was taken there and Gerichtet. When ready, the Richtkranz was nailed to the ridge, a Richtspruch vorgetragen und ein Schnaps getrunken, dann kam ein Richtfest with food and drinks. All das, mußte eingehalten werden und vom Auftraggeber oder Bauherrn bezahlt werden....
@@loquidity4973 By the way: If the owner/Bauherr was tight, there was no Richtkranz or small tree nailed on, but a dried out old broom, made from Birch twigs.
Very nice video on this root "richt", "rect". So many deep meanings and once again an opportunity to present the many prefixes and their power to form meanings. Some honorable mentions that came to mind immediately: - ausrichten = bewirken, aber auch veranstalten - verrichten = etwas (auf die rechte Art) tun, bewerkstelligen, schaffen - unverrichtet - rechtschaffen Obviously the root word has a spiritual meaning as it almost always has to do with the realization of a plan (God's plan?), an idea, with the truth and the true way of doing things. God = good; God = truth; truth = good Not so easy to find the RIGHT !!! words....
Interestingly there are a lot of English words that are almost the same as the examples you have (aufricht, upright) that were not included in the list of cognates, even though that would really highlight the links!
True, but the English word "upright" is mostly used to express a physical circumstance such as standing upright as opposed to lying down. The German "aufrichtig" does not mean that. We would use "aufrecht," which I did not include along with many others.
The video has reminded me of the slogan at a T-shirt which I saw recently in a sale. "Прав не тот, кто прав, а тот, кто лев" /Prav ne tot, kto prav, a tot, kto lev/ (Is right not who is right, but who is a lion). Here is words' play: the word "лев" means both "lion" and formally "(he) is left" in Russian.
@@loquidity4973 I don't know about the cognate. The root "right" and "richt" correlates with the root "prav". правый /právyy/ - right (adj.) права человека /pravá chelovéka/ - human's rights направо /naprávo/ - to the right справа /správa/ - from the right налево /nalévo/ - to the left слева /sléva/ - from the left направление /napravlénie/ - direction управление /upravlénie/ - control правительство /pravítel'stvo/ - government отправлять /otpravlyát'/ - to send отправить /otprávit'/ - to have sent приправа /pripráva/ - sause or something with similar destination заправка /zaprávka/ - gas/benzine station справка /správka/ - an information document, I don't know it in English. выправка /výpravka/ - the style, how proud officiers hold their backs and shoulders исправлять /ispravlyát'/ - to correct, to repair
@@loquidity4973 R+vowel+(x)T, seems, exists in Russian only in loanwords (as "рихтовать" /rikhtovát'/ - to correct) and in the word "рот" /rot/ (mouth). But if we change T to D, then there is the word "ряд" /ryad/ (line of objects, sequence), "порядок" /poryádok/ (order = Ordnung), "рядовой" /ryadovóy/ (usual; lowest rang in army), "наряд" /naryád/ (nice clothes; order for some work), "отряд" /otryád/ (organized group of people or animals), "заряд" /zaryád/ (charge), "рядом" /ryádom/ (together, at adjacent place), and some other words with the same root; and there are words "рад" /rad/ (glad), "род" /rod/ (gender, bear (as verb), kind (as noun)), "руда" /rudá/ (ore), "редька" /réd'ka/ (radish), "редиска" /redíska/ (vegetable which red surface and white inside), редко /rédko/ (seldom), рыдать /rydát'/ (to cry laudly).
If "to construct" is a cognate with "recht"/"richt", then Latin must have the prefix "st". But does it exist? In Russian the prefix "с" /s/ exists, in English I don't know (may be it is in the word "slightly"). Then the word "straight" may have the same root.
I suspect that the German cognates share a root with English "erect" in Latin "erectus", especially given the very similar meanings. (written before 04:15)
@@loquidity4973 Nicht annähernd so schlimm wie ich. Seit etwa einem Jahr vergesse ich immer Namen. Dabei waren Namen und Telefonnummern immer meine Stärke. No more , and it ain't age alone.
@@user-pp6fx7si4g Berichtigen ist ein wichtiges Wort, das ich übersehen habe. Ich arbeite an einem neuen Video über „halten“ was hoffentlich bald rauskommt.
