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Re: Finno-Ugric languages

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Monday, September 21, 1998, 4:57
Nik Taylor wrote:
> > Charles wrote: > > I'm having trouble coming up with a good short morpheme > > for "people" (trying to base it on Latin/IE). I like > > "vir" for male persons, "fem" for female, but the > > best-so-far for both (epicene?) is "pern" or "dem", > > which really won't do. Hmm, maybe "sav" ... > > How about "gen" from latin _gens_, people/race (as in Spanish "gente")
That's it!
> "God is dead" -- Nietzsche > "Nietzsche is dead" -- God
"Nietzsche is God" -- Dead (From the unix fortune program.)