From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Apr 17 10:59:17 2003
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 50B6137B401
	for <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:59:17 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from ntli.com (pc1-glfd2-4-cust59.glfd.cable.ntl.com [81.99.187.59])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D7843FB1
	for <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 10:59:16 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from william@palfreman.com)
Received: from aqua.lan.palfreman.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by ntli.com (8.12.3p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h3HI6CuG030982;
	Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:06:12 +0100 (BST)
	(envelope-from william@palfreman.com)
Received: from localhost (william@localhost)h3HI6BBS030979;
	Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:06:12 +0100 (BST)
X-Authentication-Warning: aqua.lan.palfreman.com: william owned process doing
	-bs
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 19:06:11 +0100 (BST)
From: William Palfreman <william@palfreman.com>
To: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030416194824.M36781-100000@a3ij25fvy80j.bc.hsia.telus.net>
Message-ID: <20030417184317.F57044@ndhn.yna.cnyserzna.pbz>
References: <20030416194824.M36781-100000@a3ij25fvy80j.bc.hsia.telus.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
cc: =?iso-8859-15?Q?S=EAr=EAciya_Kurdistan=EE?= <sereciya@kurdistan.ath.cx>
cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
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
	<freebsd-chat.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat>,
	<mailto:freebsd-chat-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-chat-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat>,
	<mailto:freebsd-chat-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 17:59:17 -0000

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Viktor Lazlo wrote:

> Don't forget Dutch paard/German Pferd, both derived from a third Latin
> term "para veredus",

That is the origin of my surname.

>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Palfrey \Pal"frey\, n. [OE. palefrai, OF. palefrei, F. palefroi,
     LL. palafredus, parafredus, from L. paraveredus a horse for
     extraordinary occasions, an extra post horse; Gr. ? along,
     beside + L. veredus a post horse.]

In fact it is a type of Celtic post horse used by the Romans in Gaul and
Britain.  Not an agricultural or domestic horse, but a semi-military
one that was not a charger or a battlefield one.

> from the days when common people had little
> experience with horses other than seeing those used by the king's
> messenger service.

Yeah!!!  2000 years of network communication protocols!

Regards,
Bill.