Re: The meaning of life: PIE. *gWiH3w-

> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@>

wrote:

> > >
> > > The term "livestock" seems to support Piotr, the
> > > traditional idea of cattle as "money on the go" would
> > > fit into a nomadic society
> >
> > Even more so
> > ON kvíga, < *kwi:Go:n "heifer"
> > ODa kwegh, Sw.dial. kvek "cattle", MLG quek "horned cattle"
> > (Da kvaj "idiot")
> > I kept telling him that it's "mobile property". but he won't
> > budge. ;-)
> >
> >
> > Well, I am sure you have a table of quick answers on your "rant"
> > website.
>
> What was the question?
>

> I was trying to pun on quek.
>
> No serious business at all.
>

Oh. I kvaj wasn't too quek. ;-)
It's difficult for someone to whom the words are familiar to imagine
what associations those to whom they aren't get.


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