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'?
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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"