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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: flatulence #120641 01/30/04 03:51 AM Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California J jheem veteran jheem veteran J Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 1,475 California Taking this excess of gas back to Proto-Indo-European, philologists reconstruct two roots for 'fart': *perd- 'to fart loudly' (*prdi-s whence OE feortan and Welsh rhech 'fart') and *pezd- 'to pass wind softly' whence Greek bdeo, Latin pedo 'to fart', podex 'butt, behind', pedis 'louse'. The Latin podex also gives the German words der Podex and der Popo 'butt'. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted crapulent nancyk 01/20/04 07:48 PM Re: crapulent wwh 01/20/04 08:14 PM Re: crapulent belMarduk 01/20/04 08:44 PM Re: crapulent nancyk 01/20/04 10:26 PM Re: crapulent wwh 01/20/04 10:42 PM Re: crapulent musick 01/20/04 11:16 PM Re: crapulent tsuwm 01/21/04 01:11 AM Re: crapulent Capfka 01/22/04 06:51 AM better late than never AnnaStrophic 01/22/04 08:41 PM Re: better late than never Wordwind 01/23/04 03:52 AM Re: better late than never nancyk 01/23/04 09:08 PM Re: better late than never maahey 01/24/04 01:07 AM Re: better late than never Wordwind 01/24/04 03:10 AM Re: crap- or corp- Faldage 01/24/04 02:35 PM Re: crap- or corp- tsuwm 01/24/04 03:17 PM Re: crap- or corp- Wordwind 01/24/04 07:00 PM Re: crapulent Sparteye 01/24/04 02:58 AM Re: crapulent AnnaStrophic 01/28/04 04:26 PM Re: crapulent Wordwind 01/28/04 08:15 PM Re: flatulence tsuwm 01/28/04 08:21 PM plus ça change.. AnnaStrophic 01/28/04 08:35 PM Re: plus ça change.. Faldage 01/28/04 09:06 PM Re: plus ça change.. wwh 01/28/04 09:28 PM Re: flatulence Jackie 01/29/04 02:40 AM Re: flatulence jheem 01/30/04 03:51 AM Re: flatulence wwh 01/30/04 02:30 PM Flash Warning! consuelo 02/01/04 01:50 PM Re: Pe(r,z)d Faldage 02/01/04 07:23 PM Re: Pe(r,z)d jheem 02/01/04 07:40 PM Re: crapulent wwh 01/28/04 08:27 PM 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 Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,412 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 927 guests, and 4 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 35 A C Bowden 26 LukeJavan8 4 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,583 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,922 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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