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Re: Dicussion on 'hermaphrodite' (was Of accents & dialects

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, November 3, 2008, 17:07
Sounds like a mixed drink. "Gin and Ron"?  Seems that when
word-initial the morpheme gyn(e) is usually [gajn] in English words...



On 11/3/08, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Scotto Hlad wrote: >> >>I'd like to add to the etymology for androgyne. Andro is the genitive form >>of aner the Greek word for man and gyne is the Greek word for woman. >> > Possibly a nonce-form, but in the past I've heard "gynandron" [dZIn'&ndr\on] > as a term for a person who has both sexual characteristics. >
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