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Mesopotamia
Different root:
Let's see you prove it,Faldage
And I couldn't find any post mentioniing "poi".
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Mesopotamia
Speakng of Mesopotamia brings to mind "pottage," as in "selling one's birthright for a mess of pottage." Do the "pot" in "pottage" and for that matter in "pot" (as in "not calling the kettle black") come from the same potare root?
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Next thang you're gonna try and convince us Hawaiian is an IE language, Faldage. Well, I for one won't fall for it.
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Sometimes, I simply do not comprehend any of the goings-on (shaking head in utter bewilderment e) 'Poi' especially is sailing over my head.
Faldage's link suggested that the greek 'potamos' is the root for both Mesopotamia and the adorable hippo. Does that apply also to the Potomac?
Edit: [shining bulb e]
potare(L): Potable, Potatory, Potation potamos(G): Mesopotamia, Hippopotamus potio(L): Potion, Poison posis(G): Symposium
Phew!
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I looked up compote, as in stewed fruit, sometimes delicious and otherwise disgusting--but that 'pot' in compote was unrelated. Turned out to be more related to compost, and, I'll tell you one thing, some fruit compotes in my experience have tasted more like compost than fruit.
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We been through this before. Dear Faldage: what have you been drinking? Neither of your citations contain anytghing contradicting etymology of "Mesopotamia" for which I can find a half dozen sites supporting "Land between the rivers". And as always, I deplore attitude of oldtimers that newcomers should read 100,000 posts lest they duplicate one. Badword that. Double badword that. In Spades.
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contradicting etymology of "Mesopotamia" for which I can find a half dozen sites supporting "Land between the rivers".
I din't never said they wan't no connection atween potamia and rivers. It's potamia and potable they ain' no connection atween.
Geesh!
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How do you know what compost tastes like, WW? hey, somebody hadda ask it
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know what compost tastes like
synaesthesia, eh?
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