Re: Res: [tied] Catalan Bruixa = witch

This translation interprets it as "wise women" in English:
http://www.uah.edu/student_life/organizations/SAL/readings/1999/fall/Week3.html

Going from "wise woman" to "witch" would not be a huge semantical
leap, since "wizard" is etymologically connected to "wise". That's his
guess, I think...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "clayton_rc" <entrelenga@> wrote:
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> > paste". Does anybody have any comments about the happax Manuel Said
> > Ali quoted?
> >
> > Clayton Said Ali,
> > > >however, had earlier admitted in Investigações Filológicas (1975,
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> >> p. 257), very convincingly, that it stems from the Latin happax
> > > >plusscìa/pluscìa, that occurs in the discourse of Trimalchio.
> *******
> Apparently Satyricon LXIII:
> "Rogo vos, oportet credatis, sunt mulieres plussciae, sunt Nocturnae,
> et quod sursum est, deorsum faciunt."
> Ernout translates this "femmes qui en savent plus que nous, il ya
> des fees nocturnes".
> I would like to see a "very convincing" argument that this is the
> source of ' bruja' etc.
> Dan
>