From: Torsten
Message: 65243
Date: 2009-10-15
> > > "cunt" ~ "kusi" etc.I forgot these
> > > If there's any connection, it's as "fish meat"/"inferior meat",
> > > cf. Sw. kött and Eng. chitlings, ie. as the food of the
> > > conquered, originally the object of the hunting/fishing
> > > expedition.
>
>
> > "Food of the conquered"? I'm going to say this idea is stillborn.
> > Especially from the Uralic POV, given that *kuns´i is near
> > pan-Uralic with the exclusiv meaning of "urine". You could much
> > better argue for "that which is to be hidden" (not that I would
> > think of that as convincing either, however).
>
> Or you could drag in *kunc^V *kuc^V "tapeworm"
>