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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 Re: Other potables? #99526 03/27/03 03:07 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Mesopotamia Different root: Let's see you prove it,Faldage And I couldn't find any post mentioniing "poi". Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Esau #99527 03/27/03 03:45 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA W wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel wofahulicodoc Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 10,535 Likes: 1 Worcester, MA 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? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99528 03/27/03 03:48 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 post mentioniing "poi". http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=words&Number=100617 Second link. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: poi #99529 03/27/03 03:56 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Next thang you're gonna try and convince us Hawaiian is an IE language, Faldage. Well, I for one won't fall for it. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99530 03/27/03 04:08 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 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! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables?--not! #99531 03/27/03 04:16 PM Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... W Wordwind OP Carpal Tunnel OP Wordwind Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 6,296 Piedmont Region of Virginia, U... 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99532 03/27/03 04:24 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 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. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables? #99533 03/27/03 04:33 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 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! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables?--not! #99534 03/27/03 04:46 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York How do you know what compost tastes like, WW? hey, somebody hadda ask it Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Other potables?--not! #99535 03/27/03 05:31 PM Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 M maahey addict maahey addict M Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 555 know what compost tastes like synaesthesia, eh? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 2 of 3 1 2 3 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. 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