Sujet : Re: =29
De : no_email (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (Antonio Marques)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 14. Apr 2024, 02:18:41
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Jeff Barnett <
jbb@notatt.com> wrote:
While a docent at the Albuquerque Zoo, I was informed that
"hippopotamus" came from the Greek and meant "river horse". Any truth to
that?
Well, yes, hippo- is horse and potamo- is river.
There must be something to it, because in the (portuguese-based) guinean
creole it is pis-kabalu, plainly 'horse fish' (by now you'll know english
is in the minority in placing qualifiers before nouns).
«Грязь, грязь, чудная грязь!» (Flanders and Swann, Hippopotamus)
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