Re: [tied] bison

From: danjmi
Message: 17805
Date: 2003-01-20

Do bison stink? I never heard the American species accused of
being particularly smelly.
Dan Milton
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> Germanic *wisand-/*wisund- is no doubt of participial origin,
apparently < *wis(o)nto- 'stinking (beast)', cf. weasel < *wisulo:n-
'little stinker'.
>
> Piotr
>