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Re: CHAT: Homo Sapiens (was: fiery spirits)

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 29, 2003, 13:42
Benct Philip Jonsson scripsit:

> Reviving 'goom' seems like a fun but doomed idea.
There is a single survivor of _guma_, the -groom in bridegroom < _bryd-guma_, modified by folk etymology. -- It was dreary and wearisome. Cold clammy winter still held way in this forsaken country. The only green was the scum of livid weed on the dark greasy surfaces of the sullen waters. Dead grasses and rotting reeds loomed up in the mists like ragged shadows of long-forgotten summers. --"The Passage of the Marshes" http://www.ccil.org/~cowan