Re: CHAT: Return of the Sal (was CHAT: Re: Zed)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 23, 2000, 22:56 |
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Steg Belsky wrote:
> Interesting....i've heard that there are some Hebraic influences in
> Tolkien's conlangs, but the root SsRTt in Hebrew means "scratch".
Latin scribere = scratch/write, borrowed into all Germanic languages
as a word for "write" except English.
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