Re: Res: [tied] Catalan Bruixa = witch

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "clayton_rc" <entrelenga@...> wrote:

> paste". Does anybody have any comments about the happax Manuel Said
> Ali quoted?
>
> Clayton Said Ali,
> > >however, had earlier admitted in Investigações Filológicas (1975,

>> p. 257), very convincingly, that it stems from the Latin happax
> > >plusscìa/pluscìa, that occurs in the discourse of Trimalchio.

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Apparently Satyricon LXIII:
"Rogo vos, oportet credatis, sunt mulieres plussciae, sunt Nocturnae,
et quod sursum est, deorsum faciunt."
Ernout translates this "femmes qui en savent plus que nous, il ya
des fees nocturnes".
I would like to see a "very convincing" argument that this is the
source of ' bruja' etc.
Dan