Re: booze words

> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Mark J. Reed
> > It's _bi-_, here meaning "side" as in "side effect", plus
> _smak_ "taste". The
> > prefix is from German _bei_ according to my dictionary.
>
> yeah, got it.  bi + smak (english by + smack), not bis + mak.  Divided
> it in the wrong place. :)

My instinct was to parse it as "bis+mak" too, leading me to think it was some type of Turkish verb.

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