Resumen de Murmur, heat and bonds: on some words of magic and healing
The paper argues that a) Germanic *tauf/ƀra- (Germ. Zauber, etc.) is related to a root PIE *deu̯p- ‘beat; make a hollow sound, resound’ found in Greek 'doupos' ‘thud’, etc., b) Greek 'phármakon' goes back to the root PIE *gʷʰer- ‘heat’ (Gk. 'thermós', etc.) implying healing by fomentation, and c) Armenian hiwand ‘sick’, borrowed from Iranian, to PIE *sh₂ei̯- ‘bind’ relying on the notion of disease as a supernatural bond.
