From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 16 19:55:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B7937B401 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net (outbound04.telus.net [199.185.220.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76AA543F93 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:55:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from viktorlazlo@telus.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([207.6.229.118]) by priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.netESMTP <20030417025546.CKUA15908.priv-edtnes16-hme0.telusplanet.net@[192.168.1.100]>; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:55:46 -0600 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:55:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo X-X-Sender: viktorlazlo@a3ij25fvy80j.bc.hsia.telus.net To: Guido van Rooij In-Reply-To: <20030416115556.GA23101@gvr.gvr.org> Message-ID: <20030416194824.M36781-100000@a3ij25fvy80j.bc.hsia.telus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=EAr=EAciya_Kurdistan=EE?= Subject: Re: FreeBSD logo... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 02:55:48 -0000 On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Guido van Rooij wrote: > An example would be Equus vs. Cavallus. The first is the latin word for horse, > the second is the word used by soldiers for horses, a kind of slang. > In france, the word for horse is cheval, which comes from Cavallus and not > from equus. > > -Guido Don't forget Dutch paard/German Pferd, both derived from a third Latin term "para veredus", from the days when common people had little experience with horses other than seeing those used by the king's messenger service. Cheers, Viktor