Re: Rom. TâTã

>I suspect we have at least three very similar independent words
>here - Armenian, Germanic and Greek, so I expect Marius will insist
>that it's a lallwort. I guess I'd better not suggest Hebrew
>_dad_ 'teat' as a cognate! (That does have a convincing form for a
>lallwort.)

Until a better explanation pops up, it'll be better to
stay by the Lallwort-assumption, than to accept any
fancy... Dummlall. (BTW, this is a German Usenetese
coinage. :^)

>If you mean the application to both humans and cows,
>it's quite plausible.

Only that in Romanian the native speaker doesn't
see the... correspondence between die Zitzen
and Brust-Euter-usw *as it is in German*: in Germany,
Alex must grab the cow's Zitzen, not the cow's Euter,
in order to get some milk. In Romania, he won't bother
himself with such hair-splitting lexical aspects. :^)

>Richard.

George