From: fortuna11111
Message: 22324
Date: 2003-05-28
> 'dead body' (or, metaphorically, something broken andabandoned) and NEVER
> 'block of wood'. But we have early Slavic words and Balkancognates that
> point to the ORIGINAL meaning. Got it now?Modern Bulgarian "trup" (coarpse) with a double plural: trupove
>not just its
> Greek <antHro:pos> can't have anyting to do with all that, but,
> incidentally, it means 'person, human being'. A whole being,
> mortal coil.I would agree.