tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu May 18 10:43:48 1995
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Re: Coffee
I thought of using >SoSbIQ< for milk once: "the water of the mother". Of
course >SoSbIQ< could also have a meaning such as in "breaking the water".
BTW, someone wasn't sure that latte originally meant milk. It does. From
the Latin root lact-, which of course appears in Greek as
galakt-/galax-. My Latin history text is absent; but I think that I
remember a connection between lact, galact and lachryma (tears).... Any
Ur-Indo-European scholars still in on this one?
FWIW, we already have a word from MO for coffee. 'Twas mentioned in
HolQeD. Maybe y'all can call cafe au lait "white coffee". That
translates without difficulty.
Dave.