Re: ferinstanz (wasRe: Namaste, Nikhil!!! )

Costentin Cornomorus scripsit:

> ! :D Fereng- < LL. franko-, as I recall!!! It's
> cognate with "French", rather than "Ferengi"!
It all comes from the same place.  As the root f?rn?g- moved around the
world, it shifted semantically from "freeman" to "Frenchman" to
"Crusader, European" to "trader" to "capitalist with big ears".

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