Re: [tied] Drip

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Napoleon Savescu"
<sarmizegetuzu@...> wrote:

>
> >
> > French pisser ('le moteur pisse l'huile', says my French

dictionary)

> > and the corresponding words in Germanic, which, because of *p-,

must

> > be at least Nordwestblock.
> >
>
> French *pisser *(the same as Romanian *a pisa) *= English *to piss

*(via

> Anglo-Norman French); all these come from late and popular Latin

**pissiare.

> *
> *Pisser l'huile *est une vieille metaphore populaire, retenue au

niveau

> scientifique de la langue francaise, mes cheris!
>

And the question is where late and popular Latin, which was first of
all a soldier's language, got it from. The word even has
palatalisation, *pis´- .


Torsten