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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 16:19
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004, at 08:58  AM, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM
wrote:

> Andreas Johansson scripsit: > >> To me, a _sax_ isn't a _kniv_ "knife" (not to mention a _sax_ >> "scissors"!), >> but is there any specific English term for the former? > > No, there is nothing between "knife" and "sword" AFAIK; one may > consider a > _sax_ to be a long knife or a short sword.
What about a 'dirk'? Looking in the OED online, I find that they discredit a Gaelic origin for the word. The Scots word was 'durk' or 'dork' (stop snickering), itself possibly borrowed from N. Germanic 'dolk' (German 'dolch') "dagger". Dirk "the knife" -- Dirk Elzinga Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. - Lyall Watson

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