Re: bidet

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:

>
> > But the suffix -itate was also appended to non-Latin lexemes such

as pegor (LN) 'sterile, poor' (cfr. leihor,

> > legor 'dry') in pegorritate

(LN) 'extreme misery'. As this is extremely rare within Basque (I know no other

> > examples), I must conclude the source language must be Romance.
>
>

Well, you've come up with some interesting whoppers in the past,

>

I'm not an expert on American slang (of which Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes once said "it can be very expressive"), but I guess you aren't talking about a Big Mac, are you?

> so why

not take a look at Spanish peor < Latin peior-, note Italian peggio and nonstandard peyor and see if

> you find some examples of "sharpfening"

in early Ibero-Romance or in Ibero-Romance loans into Basque. You

> probably won't find anything but who knows.
>

I don't think pegor has anything to do with Romance, but as you said, who knows?

> In any caase, Feliz Tavidad

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>

Merry Rickstmas!