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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread oont #104703 06/02/2003 4:50 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 In a Kipling story about India, the word "oont" appeared. Search for defintion = camel was in Kipling Glossary: http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/glossary.html I noticed however, that it didn't contain the word "kelk" which tsuwm found = foetid parsley. Sounds delicious. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Foetid Parsley #104704 06/02/2003 8:35 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Capfka Pooh-Bah Capfka Pooh-Bah Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,624 Utter Placebo, Planet Reebok Is called wild parsley in New Zealand. The world "foetid" is more apt, however, because it stinks when it's growing and it has a nauseatingly putrid stench about it when it's rotting. Even feral goats, renowned for their completely unfussy attitude to what is edible and what is not, won't touch it with a forty-foot barge pole. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Foetid Parsley #104705 06/03/2003 12:08 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear Capfka: if feral goats won't eat it, it must be pretty bad. A hundred years ago, mothers in New England used to hang asafoetid around kids necks as a talisman to protect them against childhood diseases. asafetida or asafoetida n. 5ME < ML asa (< Pers aza, gum) + L foetida, fem. of foetidus, FETID6 a bad-smelling gum resin obtained from various Asiatic plants (genus Ferula) of the umbel family: it was formerly used to treat some illnesses or, in folk medicine, to repel disease Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: oont #104706 06/03/2003 3:46 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Unta (u being pronounced oo) is the Indonesian for camel. Burung unta (literally camelbird) is the Indonesian for ostrich. Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  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... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary

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