Re: Cheap, shallow and super: French deficiencies

From:    Joe <joe@...>
> > John Cowan wrote:
> > My candidate for Preposterous Swedish Verb is _fitta_ 'to give birth to
> > pigs'
>
> Does this work when humans give birth to pigs, or when pigs give birth
> to humans? ;-)
I seem to recall that Meskwaki has a single verb for "to give birth
to a little squash", but I'll have to check up on that. (This obviously
comes from a story of Meskwaki mythology, with noun incorporation of
the squash.)

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