Re: CHAT: September 17th
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 15:52 |
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Stone Gordonssen wrote:
> >Well, today is September 17th, and the feast of (St.) Hildegard of
> >Bingen - the conlangers' patron saint, probably.
>
> I actually read something about Catholic Saints while doing some rsarch on
> Vodou. Heldegard is not the patron saint of linguists/linguopiles, but I
> can't remember who was other than he was rather obscure (shown often as an
> old man bent over a desk writing). Drat.
>
I seem to recall that somewhere, someone proposed St. Isidore of Seville,
who wrote a lot about etymologies.
But most of his etymologies* are ludicrously wrong, and he was a dreadful
anti-Semite to boot.
*(Vulpes 'fox' < volo 'fly', pes 'foot' is typical.)