Re: Basic lexicon
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 2, 2002, 15:13 |
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Anton Sherwood scripsit:
> Now how about the linguistic origins of <Morris Swadesh>?
He was born in the U.S. of Russian Jewish parentage, so I would
suspect that "Swadesh" is a product of Ellis Island, rather
like the mythical Jewish "Shaun Ferguson" (i.e. "sheyn fergesen").
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