Re: [tied] Androphobia sucks

On Tue, 27 May 2003 18:24:31 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...>
wrote:

>From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
>
>> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>>
>> > BTW, the Greek "androphos". Is the slavic "trupU" somehow related
>here
>> > too? If yes, is there a verb in slavic too, derived from "trupU"?
>>
>> Do you mean <antHro:pos>, or <ane:r>/<andros>? Well, whichever it is,
>> neither of them is related to <trupU>, which, as far as I know,
>> originally meant 'block of wood' (hence one as dead as a ...). <ane:r>
>> is from PIE *h2ner- 'man' (the /d/ in <andr-> is epenthetic, as in
>> English <thunder> from <thunr->). <antHro:pos> has no single accepted
>> etymology. The ancient Greeks already "explained" it in a number of
>> pre-scientific ways, and we're hardly any wiser today.
>>
>> Piotr
>
>
>I guess it is a selfevidence that "antHro:pos" = "întrupa"

...thus making Piotr's point that "we're hardly any wiser today" much
better than he or anyone else would have liked to imagine.

Please keep your ****** nonsense to yourself.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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