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Re: Weekly Vocab #1.1.1 (repost #1)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Friday, September 15, 2006, 17:00
Hi!

Philip Newton writes:
> On 9/5/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote: > > Carsten Becker writes: > > > >> 2. werewolf / lycanthrope of some variety > > > > > > ayvengaryo (lit. "wolf-man") > > > > 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)
Funny -- I even (though I) had considered this when I stated the above. Confusion. Thanks for correcting! **Henrik

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