Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utastro.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!utastro!nather From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.nlang Subject: Re: Origins of Words Message-ID: <584@utastro.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 12:47:48 EDT Article-I.D.: utastro.584 Posted: Thu Sep 27 12:47:48 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Sep-84 03:17:08 EDT References: <1137@eosp1.UUCP>, <3442@ut-sally.UUCP> Organization: UTexas Astronomy Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 18 Xref: 746 1870 [] >Incidentally, the common four-letter word meaning ``urine'', cited >recently in this discussion as an example of stigmatized Old English >usage, probably came into English from Latin. Its root form is one >of the few examples of onamatopoeia (sp?) in that language. >-- > Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin I thought the common three-letter word for the same action was embedded in onomatopoeia (sp!), which, I was told, means "He wet the bed." -- Ed Nather {allegra,ihnp4}!{ut-sally,noao}!utastro!nather Astronomy Dept., U. of Texas, Austin