Re: alas, those monkeys are not blue

Elliott Lash wrote:
> Old French had  'las' /las/ also I think it had 'hé' /he/
> and then they were just fused together.
American Heritage Dictionary says `ah' +
<las> `wretched' from Latin <lassus> `weary'.

OF <hé las> could mean `o wretched one'.


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