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Re: Submitted for your approval...
Andrew Smith wrote:
> There is also afur for love, Iewan would also add
> afor which happens between animals.
I think you got mixed up here:
French amour (from Occitan): "love"
French ameur (straight from Latin, arch.) "rut"
Brithenig "afur" (straight from Latin) "love"
Brithenig "amur" (from Occitan): "Courtly Love, light love,
adultery/fornication"
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)