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Re: "She Grows (Medicinal) Herbs"

Fiat Knox ([email protected])



No, if I'd said "firewood," I'd have used a term more like "nInvaD tI."

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Alex.

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--- On Wed, 27/5/09, ghunchu'wI' <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: ghunchu'wI' <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: "She Grows (Medicinal) Herbs"
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, 27 May, 2009, 10:39 PM
> On May 27, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Steven
> Boozer wrote:
> 
> >>  vutmeH tI wIj - (She) farms (vegetation for
> cooking) herbs (spices?)
> >
> > I like this one for "spices".
> 
> jIQoch.  I see no hint that "vegetation for cooking"
> means something  
> added to improve the taste of food.  It could just as
> easily refer to  
> a wrapper, either edible (like grape leaves) or not (e.g.
> corn  
> husks), and the first thing that comes to my mind is
> actually fuel  
> for heating.  If you want to talk about spices, I
> think {tlhorgh} is  
> a much better word to employ than is {vut}.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'
> 
> 
> 
> 


      






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