[tied] Re: Indo-European for Uralic speakers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Ben McGarr" <celteuskara@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "aquila_grande"

<aquila_grande@...>

> wrote:
> > The "swedish" word for boy (poike) is a loan from finnish

(poika).

> I
> > once talked with a swede that was unhappy about having borrowed
> such
> > an important word, when Norwegians have their own word (gutt).
>
> I wonder is there any link with the pejorative English word "get"
> or "git"?
>
> The meaning is something like "devil" or "swine" or generally an
> unpleasant [but almost always male] person. E.g. "You cheeky

little

> get!" "What's that old git doing, over there?"
>

Supposedly it means "bastard", from "get" (used as a noun) i.e. one
begotten.

Ned Smith