tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 28 10:53:15 2009
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Re: News from Maltz
On 28 Jul 2009, at 17:05, David Trimboli wrote:
>>> My guess is that it sounds like "villain," which is the sort of
>>> person who nearly always has minions.
>>
>> Also, wasn't there an old English word "villein" that meant something
>> like servant or minion?
>
> You're right, that's it. A villein was a low-class farmer, just one
> step above a serf. It's also the linguistic source of the word
> "villain."
Well this is very peculiar, because I posted about "villain" about
nine hours ago and it still hasn't turned up on this list.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/