Re: [tied] Androphobia sucks

From: fortuna11111
Message: 22324
Date: 2003-05-28

For example, Modern Polish <trup> means ONLY
> 'dead body' (or, metaphorically, something broken and
abandoned) and NEVER
> 'block of wood'. But we have early Slavic words and Balkan
cognates that
> point to the ORIGINAL meaning. Got it now?

Modern Bulgarian "trup" (coarpse) with a double plural: trupove
(coarpses), trupi (blocks of wood).

>
> Greek <antHro:pos> can't have anyting to do with all that, but,
> incidentally, it means 'person, human being'. A whole being,
not just its
> mortal coil.

I would agree.

Eva