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Re: Naming days of the week and months of the year????

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Thursday, May 3, 2001, 15:28
On Thu, 3 May 2001 00:55:10 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
> Nik Taylor wrote: > > >Irina Rempt wrote: > >> In Valdyan "planet" is _laz sainan_, "roaming star". > > > >Uilá vannálki "Walking star" in Uatakassí. > > > Kash: latondrele, irreg. < lato ri nele 'wander(s) in sky/heaven'. An > animate noun. > Doesn't the Greek original of "planet" mean 'wanderer'?
- Yup... i just mentioned it in a paper for my etymology class a few weeks ago. -Stephen (Steg) "i'm blue - if i was green i would die." ~ common (and deep) mishearing of the song "Blue"