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Subject: Re: Sir Paunettus,kinsman to Edward the Black Prince: Clue to ancestry of P...
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:31:26 EDT

In a message dated 3/17/2008 9:00:36 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
writes:

And from <http://www.coquinaria.nl/kooktekst/Edelikespijse1.htm#1.11>;
we learn how to roast a peacock in Middle Dutch, albeit of the 15th
century: "Den paeuw te bradene den paeu sal men pluymen ...". The
root is essentially the same. >>


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And you may as well say the root is the same for 500 other words which we
can show are not related to each other.
The simple development of the same spelling over hundreds of years is not
proof of the origin of the word. And the above is a very weak argument at any
rate. The etymological dictionary is a direct and firm statement that paon
in this particular time period and region, did not mean peacock.

Of course Velikovsky would agree with you. But then do you want to be in
his world?

Will Johnson



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