Re: [tied] Bzik/Berserkr

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> ****GK: I looked up "bzik" in a Polish-Ukrainian
> dictionary I have. It is explained there as "psykh",
> in the sense of someone who's slightly off his or her
> rocker. It doesn't seem to imply the intensity of
> "berserk" usually, but it could in a stretch. "Bzik"
> as "psycho"? I wonder if "bzik" is simply a Polish
> popular rendition of "psych" in that sense? ******

Thanks, George.
This is interesting. If <bzik> is 19thC, then there
may be a problem with when 'psych' came to be connected
with madness. It's fairly recent. But 'physic' has a very
old connotation with regard to treatment of distempered animals as
well as mentally tormented humans.

Regards, Steve Long


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