Re: [tied] IE words for spleen

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 07 May 2005 12:53:34 +0000, Carl
> <datalampa@...> wrote:
>
> >I´ve been looking for an etymological explanation for the

french word

> >for spleen, rate, but haven´t been able to find it.
>
> >and the german Zorn seems to be unexplainable by
> >looking them up on the internet.
>
> Does Zorn mean spleen? AFAIK, the word is Milz.

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Zorn (<-- *der- "tear, rend" root) does mean spleen
(approximately), but only in the derived sense of the latter, the
unpleasant psychological state believed in some obsolete theory of the
bodily humours to be due to an overactive spleen.
Dan Milton