Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs

At 9:17 pm +1200 8/6/01, andrew wrote:
>Am 06/06 18:55  Raymond Brown yscrifef:
>
>> Andrew will have to decide whether Brithenig will have two different words
>> as other Romancelangs do or whether it will just keep basically one word as
>> the Brittoniclangs do.  The 'slug' word, at least, should be drived from
>> Latin: li:ma:x, [gen.] li:ma:cis.  Romance snail-words come from various
>> sources, but none from the Classical _coclea_.
>>
>So it should be llefeg', slug; melwin, a snail or slug; malw, snails or
>slugs.  I had it the other way around in my current list of things on my
>computer.
>
If _llefeg'_ established itself as the slimy, shell-less gasteropod (i.e.
slug), might not _melwin_ come to be restricted in use to the cute little
critters with the helical shells (that one may put in the cooking pot),
i.e. snails?

Just a thought.

Ray.

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