From cowan@ccil.org Mon Jun 04 18:22:45 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: cowan@mercury.ccil.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 01:22:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 46667 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 01:22:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 01:22:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mercury.ccil.org) (192.190.237.100) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 01:22:44 -0000 Received: from cowan by mercury.ccil.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1575YT-0002tQ-00; Mon, 04 Jun 2001 21:22:45 -0400 Subject: Re: [lojban] New words In-Reply-To: <01060420553701.30201@neofelis> from Pierre Abbat at "Jun 4, 2001 08:43:02 pm" To: phma@oltronics.net Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:22:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: lojban@yahoogroups.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan Pierre Abbat scripsit: > I looked that up in the OED. The whiting is merlan in French, merlangus in > Latin, which is probably of Germanic origin. WordNet is a useful resource for this sort of thing. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter