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Re: Nice find

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 2, 2001, 23:02
Barry Garcia wrote:
>Elsevier's concise Spanish etymological dictionary : >containing 10000 entries, 1300 word families /
It's online?? Where? Where!?
> >The book is nice, it even shows the probably arabic sources for spanish >words. I'm finding it very useful. One of the interesting etymologies for >"thistle" (abrojo). The book states that it probably comes from the phrase >"aperi oculos!" (open your eyes!), which the book says was a warning to >those reaping and or working in fields covered in thistles.
I'm sure Elsevier only contains the most scrupulous scholarship-- but IMHO that etymology seems worthy of St. Isidore of Seville (e.g. vulpes 'fox' < vul = vol(a)- 'fly' and pes 'foot', "fleet of foot". Right) ;-)

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