Re: [tied] bison

From: alex_lycos
Message: 17809
Date: 2003-01-20

dmilt1896@... wrote:
> 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

I dont know either if the bison stink.