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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
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> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
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> To make hard cheese, don't you have to squeeze out the
> whey?
> As opposed to soft runny cheese, where you just tie it
> up in cheese cloth and let drip out?
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Actually I thought of casting the net wider and get all the "four,
square" words on board too. No one has explained the /a/ of Latin
quattuor. After all, salt, curd and bread are cut into squares/cubes.
The -ts- in Dutch kwetsen "injure" is untypical of Dutch. I was
wondering if the forms with stem ending in -(t-)s(c)h- weren't from
*-t-j- > *-tsj-; there aren't any corresponding North Germanic verns
in -(t-)sk- AFAIK.
Torsten