Re: e: [tied] Re: Finnish KASKA

And I was thinking he was fixed on the horny nature of
goats

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008 07:48:35 -0600, "Patrick Ryan"
> <proto-language@...> wrote:
>
> >Miguel, are you segmenting it so because you
> analyze it as a participle: the
> >'lusting one'?
>
> No that's *kam-. This is *k^em- ~ *k^am- "horn"
> (and,
> funnily enough, "hornless"[*]).
>
> [*] Reminds one of "lucus a non lucendo", or the
> famous quip
> about Arabic lexicography: "All Arab words have four
> meanings: (1) what they mean, (2) the opposite, (3)
> something to do with camels and (4) something
> obscene".
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...
>
>

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