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Re: A poem by Ryokun

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Thursday, March 2, 2000, 14:45
Patrick Dunn wrote:

> This could be a feature, > not a bug -- just as in English "cleave" means to stick together and to > rend apart at the same time.
This is the result of a collision between two originally separate words: OE clifian 'stick', cléofan 'split'. The same is true, IIRC, of Russian mir 'peace, world'. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@...> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)