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Page 7 of 10 < 1 2 ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 > Topic Options #14147 - 01/03/02 10:19 PM Re: Please give me a clue wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 I'm really interested in finding out what the Greek or Roman words would have been for a ball of twine. They must have had words. Why do we have only a much later, apparently Germanic word? Top #14148 - 01/04/02 03:14 AM . Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #14149 - 01/04/02 07:48 AM Re: Please give me a clue Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653 http://www.daedalus.gr/DAEI/THEME/Knossos.htm Minoan civilization was about 1000 years before the founding of the city of Rome. Latin ain' gone do you much good when you phase the linear time sequence to put yourself back there to talk to Ariadne to tell her don't do it. You might as well speak Vogon to her. Top #14150 - 01/05/02 05:33 PM Re: Please give me a clue WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... a single word for "a ball of twine." Uh...baseball?what, Max? no retort for that magnificient cricket quote I found for ya? Top #14151 - 01/05/02 07:45 PM . Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #14152 - 01/05/02 07:50 PM Re: Please give me a clue wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 I have news for you (expletive omitted). For thousands of years women had been spinning, if only with a whorl spindle, and they had to carefully wind the yarn into a ball, to keep it from getting tangled. The Theseus-Ariadne myth is very old. I have no idea when it first saw print, nor any idea when it was first translated into English. NicholasW gave a couple words that were in the ballpark, but did not mean balls of thread. But the first translation had to be from a Greek or Roman word that was for no reason I can think of changed to a Germanic root. Incidentally twine means two threads twisted together for increased strength. Top #14153 - 01/05/02 08:02 PM . Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #14154 - 01/06/02 12:22 AM Re: Please give me a clue WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... And, don't forget Dr. Bill, the Celts were mainly shepherds who spun wool for thousands of years. So perhaps this missing linguistic link was coined in Gaelic, or an earlier Celtic language. Top #14155 - 01/06/02 12:53 AM . Max Quordlepleen Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/12/00 Posts: 3409 Top #14156 - 01/06/02 10:01 AM Re: Please give me a clue wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 I don't have any proof the Greeks spoke Greek, nor any that the Latins spoke Latin. They probably wrote in English. Or maybe Gaelic. Top Page 7 of 10 < 1 2 ... 5 6 7 8 9 10 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8419 Members 16 Forums 13686 Topics 209713 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members Stephen A, fgjhgjk, Nora Francis, sabosophie, Lore Lorena 8419 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 41 Guests and 3 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 82 jenny jenny 65 wofahulicodoc 47 endymion6 43 BranShea 35 Rhubarb Commando 27 Buffalo Shrdlu 19 Jackie 16 zmjezhd 15 Faldage 15 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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