Re: OF WHOREDOM .....& other X rated words

From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51598
Date: 2008-01-20

 
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From: Francisco Antonio Doria
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] OF WHOREDOM .....& other X rated words

Prostitute, from pro + st–
puta (in most Latin languages)

from puto, putas, putavi, putatum, putare - to be judged. (There is an alternative etimology, which I don't quite recall now.)

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PIE *pu "rotten, stinking"
 
Arnaud


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