Re: Vocab #4
| From: | Douglas Koller, Latin & French <latinfrench@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 26, 2002, 0:21 |
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Monkey incarnate writes:
>Kou writes:
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>>> 10. blood
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>>zhangats
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> 0_o? :) Very close to the possible original meaning of my family name
>/dZahN/ "ever-ready" . . . as in this hypothetical, ancient situation (circa
>the Shang Dynasty {hehe, die-nasty} or the Warring States Period):
> Q: _Ever-ready_ for what?
> A (Zhangster): To spill blood ::evil-mischief grin::
Alas, no. It's /ZaNats/, and it's a word coined well before I even
thought about thinking about going to the Middle Kingdom. So pthhhhh!
:) (hey, a Géarthnuns initial consonant cluster!) :)
Kou