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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: Origins of Words
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Date: Thu, 27-Sep-84 12:47:48 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 27 12:47:48 1984
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	>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