Re: [tied] Re: Italian falegname "joiner"

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 26571
Date: 2003-10-21

If Portuguese had an analogous formation would be "faz-lenhame", but there's no such formation. In Portuguese we use "carpinteiro". 
----- Original Message -----
From: Daniel J. Milton
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 1:44 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Italian falegname "joiner"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, João Simões Lopes Filho
<josimo70@......> wrote:
> What's the etymology of Italian FALEGNAME "joiner".
>
> Joao SL
> Rio
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     According to Buck's "Synonyms":
  From 'fare' "do, make" and 'legname'"woodwork, articles made of
wood" (< Latin 'lignum').



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