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#203926 - 12/30/11 02:45 AM mazard
BERT stranger Registered: 12/30/11 Posts: 1	The ethymological and unanswered question about how how we got from the bowl to the head reminds of the legend of Vikings using their ennemie's skulls as drinking bowl. I found reference to this being a myth but to the allegation that it was the practice of nomad tribes of German origin. This would lead me to think that the mazard (skull) use as a mazard (drinking bowl) is not that far fetched. Ahh, the good old days when thinks were simple and recycling commonplace Have a happy new year.
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#203934 - 12/30/11 02:05 PM Re: mazard [Re: BERT]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	welcome, Bert!! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#203969 - 12/31/11 12:23 PM Re: mazard [Re: Buffalo Shrdlu]
Rhubarb Commando old hand Registered: 11/13/11 Posts: 1021 Loc: Lancaster, UK	Thanks for that, Bert - it is a very credible theory. _________________________ I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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#203970 - 12/31/11 02:05 PM Re: mazard [Re: BERT]
Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/24/02 Posts: 7184 Loc: Vermont	and edible! _________________________ formerly known as etaoin...
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#203974 - 12/31/11 08:26 PM Re: mazard [Re: BERT]
Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky	Are you callin' him an egghead?!
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#203986 - 12/31/11 10:13 PM Re: mazard [Re: BERT]
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	OED has 1603 for the earliest use of mazard in the sense of 'head'. Sounds a little late for a derivation from Viking drinking practices. I think that just the general shape of the head would be a sufficient explanation.
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#203997 - 01/02/12 08:12 AM Re: mazard [Re: Faldage]
zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 3268 Loc: R'lyeh	Sounds a little late for a derivation from Viking drinking practices. The only citation I am aware of your "enemies skull as drinking bowl" is from Herodotus about the Scythians. A connection bteween head and container/vessel of some kind is in Romance word for head from Vulgar Latin testa 'bowl' which replaced words derived from caput. English crazy comes from a potter's term crazed 'marked by little cracks (in the glaze)'. _________________________ Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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#204008 - 01/02/12 04:36 PM Re: mazard [Re: zmjezhd]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5248 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	We have in Dutch the word "fruittest" , a fruit bowl with little holes in it to drain the water from the washed fruit. Link (dropped into the discussion like a pebble in a fruit bowl)
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#204012 - 01/02/12 08:19 PM Re: mazard [Re: BranShea]
Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under	Similar to our colander , Bran...a perforated pan, usually bowl-shaped, for draining off liquids, as in washing fruit & vegetables, pasta and rice. But yours is prettier I thought the sports ball was originally a 'human head' so went searching and found this interesting article... The Mesoamerican ballgame or Tlatchtli The bit about human sacrifice is disturbing....glad I didn't play sport back then!
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#204016 - 01/03/12 02:46 AM Re: mazard [Re: Candy]
BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5248 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague	A different ballgame. Thought it was about the link between head and bowl. Superbowl?
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