Re: [TIED] cousin

I know this!!! Cousin is from archaic Latin conswesrinos, swesrinos being derived from suesor --> soror, "sister", cognate to english "sister"!

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Piotr Gasiorowski [mailto:gpiotr@...]
Sent: 17 June 2000 23:15
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Subject: [TIED] cousin

Here's a little etymological game for all Cybalist members:

The English words COUSIN and SISTER are ultimately related within Indo-European. How?

(solution tomorrow)

Piotr