[SPAM] [tied] Re: Ramsons [was: Felice Vinci's "Homer in the Baltic"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2009-06-08 12:38, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > 'Stinker' is not prosaic enough for you? ;-)
> > But how would an epithet of grazing set it apart from other grazing
> > animals?
>
> *wes- often implies eating one's full (as in Goth. wisan 'live
> sumptuosly, make merry' or Lat. ve:scor) -- so not just _any_ grazer but
> the Big Grazer (40-60 kg a day).

Well, that much grazing would make him a Big Stinker when springtime made fresh vegetation available. Bulluc sterteth, wisent ferteth ...

DGK