...foundation of the nomenclature of the primary ideas; we investigate not, for example, why the root I signifies go and not stand; why the combination of sounds STHA, or STA, signifies stand and not go. We attempt, however, in addition, to follow out, as it were, the language in its stages of being and...

...foundation of the nomenclature of the primary ideas. I shall not investigate, for example, why the root i signifies 'go' and not 'stand'; why the combination...sounds stha or sta signifies 'stand' and not 'go'" (Franz Bopp, A Comparative Grammar of the Sanskrit, Zend, Greek, Latin, Lithuanian, Gothic, German,...