Re: "To slurp" in latin, is there such a thing?
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 15:11 |
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Hi!
Benct Philip Jonsson writes:
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> Spanish has "sorber (haciendo ruido)" Meyer Lübke's Romance
> etymological dictionary gives _sorbe:re_ which becomes
> _sorbire_ in Italian, Provençal and Catalan. Portuguese has
> _sorver_. And indeed the Classical dictionary gives
> _sorbeo_ with the meaning 'suck, swallow'!
Terkunan has a new word, too: 'stroba'. :-)
Mi pis, logu mi stroba.
I think therefore I slurp.
(Orig: 'Mi pis, logu m'es.')
**Henrik
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