Re: [tied] about milk

From: P&G
Message: 19628
Date: 2003-03-07

Oh Alex, you are making enormous problems where there are none.

"Horse" means both genders in English, and hippos can be used for either
gender in Greek. You only show the feminine form when you need to, just as,
in English, you only bother to say "mare" when you need to. There is no
problem in English saying "horse's milk", nor was there in Greek.

And yes, of course -mulgi is related to amalego. You don't have to invent
new words existing north of Greek. The prothetic vowel a- does exactly what
it should it, disappear into the long combination vowel -e:-. Compounds
usually have -o- as the combination vowel, but examples with -e:- are not
uncommon, eg choe-phoros, and elaphephoros; it makes no difference whether
the first part of the compound is masculine or feminine.

Peter