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morfe
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Re: Etymology et al
Feb 20, 2002, 23:28
huge amounts of links here:

http://www.startwright.com/words.htm


Hope there's one there that helps!


Twig I twig you; do you twig my meaning? I catch your meaning; I understand. (Irish, twigim, I notice.)



Above from:

http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/frameset.html

This is great Wotan, I also used to love looking at maps (still do) as a boy, and trying to work out the Anglo Saxon landscape from the suffixes and prefixes and odd things abound.

Thanks again for rekindling an interest of mine, this week, I'll be mostly gnawing my arm off to stop self entrenched in bibliomania.com...

*PS if Mooncat's reading, a "twitten" is a "narrow alley" all I need now is you scripting Sandy Toxvig in a HH shoot-out for obscure wordage...


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