| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 3:59 |
In a message dated 4/11/2000 2:44:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, raccoon@ELKNET.NET writes: << My sources say that the kinship terms come from Latin germanus/-a, words native to Latin and related to germen, "offshoot.">> Sounds reasonable. I was under the (perhaps mistaken) impression that Latin had borrowed it fairly late via the mainly Germanic army.