Re: CHAT: RPGs (was Re: Wargs)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 23:26 |
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Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 20:33:44 +1300
> > From: andrew <hobbit@...>
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> > I was watching a British documentary on human sexuality last week and
> > got irritated enough to talk back at the tv. Apparently women can be
> > polygamous with their male partners! Obviously polyandrous is a
> > top-shelf word.
>
> And polygynous an even topper shelf one.
>
> The 'gam-' root in Greek is not sex-specific, as far as I remember.
> For instance, gamete is the common word for egg and sperm.
Indeed. My Liddel-Scott gives (among others of that root):
GAMOS, ho: a wedding, wedding-feast (Hom., etc).
II. marriage, wedlock, Id. etc.; _ton Oin=E9=F4s gamon_,
'marriage with him', Soph.; mostly in plural, like Lat.
_nuptiae_, 'nuptials', Aesch. etc.
'gam=E9=F4' is the denominative verb for that.
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Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
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