Note [1:1:1:2]2. The verb which I translate by 'magnify'--being well aware that it is impossible to do full justice to its meaning by such a translation--is id. There seems to me no doubt that this verb is etymologically connected with the substantives ish, 'food,' id, ida, ira (not with the root yag of which Brugmann, Indogermanische Forschungen I, 171, thinks). We need not ask here whether the connection between id and ish is effected by a 'Wurzeldeterminativ' (root-determinative) d--in this case we should have here id for izhd, comp. nida for nizhda, pid for pizhd, &c.; see Brugmann's Grundriss, vol. i, 591--or whether id is a reduplicated present of id (of the type described by Brugmann, Grundriss, vol. ii, p. 854; comp. i'rte, &c.). The original meaning of i'de at all events seems to be 'I give sap or nourishment.' Now in the Vedic poetry and ritual, the idea of sap or nourishment is especially connected with the different products coming from the cow, milk and