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Posted By: wwh oont - 06/02/03 04:50 PM
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.

Posted By: Capfka Re: Foetid Parsley - 06/02/03 08:35 PM
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.

Posted By: wwh Re: Foetid Parsley - 06/03/03 12:08 AM
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


Posted By: Bingley Re: oont - 06/03/03 03:46 AM
Unta (u being pronounced oo) is the Indonesian for camel.

Burung unta (literally camelbird) is the Indonesian for ostrich.

Bingley
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