Re: IE words for spleen

>> Does Zorn mean spleen? AFAIK, the word is Milz.
> *******
> Zorn (<-- *der- "tear, rend" root) does mean spleen
> (approximately), but only in the derived sense of
> the latter, the unpleasant psychological state
> believed in some obsolete theory of the
> bodily humours to be due to an overactive spleen.
> Dan Milton

Zorn (akin: Engl. tear & Germ. zerren) is "wrath."
When I'm zornig (jähzornig, if choleric), then
I'm ready to fight (even get berserker :)).

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