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Re: CONLANG Digest - 21 Feb 2004 to 22 Feb 2004 (#2004-52)

From:<jcowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 17:38
michael poxon scripsit:

> The basques think that "la difference" is sufficiently important > to have two separate words just like most languages: Gizon (is this, by the > way, a source of the English word "geezer"?) / Andere.
No, it isn't. Geezer < Scots guiser < disguiser. Words that are actually of Basque origin (mediated by Spanish or French) are: bizarre, chaparral, jai alai, silhouette, and possibly anchovy. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan Big as a house, much bigger than a house, it looked to [Sam], a grey-clad moving hill. Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and his majesty. --"Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"

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