From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Mon Jun 04 18:29:32 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 5 Jun 2001 01:29:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 48689 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2001 01:29:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by l8.egroups.com with QMQP; 5 Jun 2001 01:29:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO chain.digitalkingdom.org) (64.169.75.101) by mta3 with SMTP; 5 Jun 2001 01:29:31 -0000 Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 1575ey-0004kx-00 for ; Mon, 04 Jun 2001 18:29:28 -0700 Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:29:28 -0700 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] New words Message-ID: <20010604182928.D16755@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.18i From: Robin Lee Powell On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 09:22:45PM -0400, John Cowan wrote: > 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. What's WordNet? -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. le datni cu djica le nu zifre .iku'i .oi le so'e datni cu to'e te pilno je xlali -- RLP http://www.lojban.org/