Re: USAGE: (Mis)Naming a Language
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, October 28, 2004, 5:13 |
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On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 22:50:04 -0500, Herman Miller <hmiller@...> wrote:
> Vizaki brings up links to pages in Greek
where it's apparently someone's username
> and what looks like romanized Greek.
*nods* It is. A diminutive of "vyzi", "boob, tit". Hence, roughly
"boobie, tittie". Related to vyzaino "to suckle, nurse at the breast",
I imagine.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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