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Re: A prioi vs. A posteriori ?

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 4, 2003, 9:37
Staving Christophe Grandsire:
> >> >> English "tree"? It's not that far off... but then, as the word means >> tree, you probably wouldn't have said "having a relationship with >> woods". But I don't want to avoid the obvious. >> > >Well, it *could* be that the word I was influenced by is related to >English "tree", but I wouldn't know myself. > >By saying that, I'm giving away an important hint: indeed, the word I'm
talking
>about is from an IE language :)) . >
Dryad? (Probably "dryas" in the original). Pete Bleackley

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