Re: [tied] Fw: Sorok i devianosto

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, x99lynx@... wrote:

>
> Just a quick note. I would ask how the "sack" word enters in

here.

> <tessarakonta> simply means forty of anything. I'm not aware of

furs or

> skins being "sacked" or needing to be (though they may have been

wrapped in

> sack-cloth, I suppose.)
>

Yes, wrapped in sack-cloth _in forties_, since it (is traditionally
considered that it) takes forty skins to make a coat. Cf. the
quotations from Dahl in my previous message. But I don't support this
_(tes)sarákonta_-etymology anyway.

Sergei