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KaaJee Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
making relationship between things
How is it said when somebody declares his opinion that two things are in relationship with each other. (Translating the word used in my language, it is “to relationize.”) I’ve found the phrase “to trace relationship (or the common descent) of two words.” But is it used also in other cases, when the two things are not two words but anything else? For. e.g. two folk customs. I.e. somebody thoughts that they have a common origin, or not necessarily have a common origin but they’re simply similar, and play the same role in different cultures, like horse races and camel races. Just like persons. For e.g.: We can … (“relationize”) two characters of two different novels, if we think they’re very similar characters with the same role. (Even if one of the plot happens in the stone age, the other in the future.)
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parallel plots/characters/customs/development Do any of these help?
- parallel plots/characters/customs/development Do any of these help?
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You’re right, it’s really the word nearest to what I talked about. However, I’ve re-thought the things, so if we forgot the second half of my description, which is about comparing similar things, could you mention another phrase, which is especially about showing relationship things, like “tracing relationship between two words”?
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Let they be two mythological persons, like Ishtar of the Sumerians andIsisof the Egyptians. There are many similarities of the cults which surrounded them (or not – I mean it’s just an example), just like in the legends, myths in which are about them. So we can’t name them the same mythical person, like Zeus and Jupiter, but once the two nations may have been in connection with each other (or both
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