Re: Weekly Vocab #1.1.1 (repost #1)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 15, 2006, 7:39 |
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On 9/5/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Carsten Becker writes:
> > >> 2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety
> >
> > ayvengaryo (lit. "wolf-man")
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> Interesting. Did you have a particular reason to decide to reverse
> the typical order for compounding? All the languages in which I know
> the word 'werewolf' compound it as 'man-wolf'.
"Lycanthrope" is a counter-example :) (lykos, wolf; anthropos, human)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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