Re: [tied] Re: Milk and a Gaulish Love Poem

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 14485
Date: 2002-08-23

 
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Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Milk and a Gaulish Love Poem

> To this pure amateur the root sounds simply echoic of swallowing.
 
Yes, onomatopoeia very likely accounts for quite a few of those "m-l-g" words.
 
Piotr