truncus [Re: Androphobia sucks]

From: g
Message: 22357
Date: 2003-05-29

>note, BTW, the semantic evolution of
>Lat. truncus 'pine-tree stripped of its branches' --> Eng. trunk 'body
>[sans head and limbs]').

The same thing in Romanian: 1 trunchi, 2 trunchiuri
(both of the human body and of a tree).

>Piotr

George