From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de   
      
   Antonio Marques  schrieb oder zitierte:   
   >But is the origin 'can ... suffer'?   
   >One can use 'tolerate' for 'like'...   
      
     Yes, "leiden" can mean as much as to endure, and I think that   
     when you say you can endure someone well, it means that you   
     like him (in the sense of "to be fond of him").   
      
     What I've only just learned from looking it up in the   
     dictionary of origins is that the verb "leiden" is not   
     originally etymologically related to the adjective "leid"   
     and the noun "Leid" derived from that adjective!   
      
   Newsgroups: sci.lang   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)