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Re: OT: Junk/Dim S(ui)m

From:Isidora Zamora <isidora@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 2:47
At 10:35 PM 9/15/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Isidora Zamora scripsit: > > > My first thought when I saw the it was that it closely resembled the > > Russian word for "prayer rope," which is chotki. I'm sure there's no > > actual connection between the two words, though. > >m-w.com says it's from old Polish "czaczko" of the same meaning.
Do you mean that the old Polish has the same meaning as the modern Russian "chotki"? Isidora

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John Cowan <cowan@...>