hUSTERA and hUSTEREW

Maurice A. O'Sullivan mauros at iol.ie
Tue Feb 20 11:53:13 EST 2001


At 13:26 20/02/01, JKandJWilk at aol.com wrote:

>Does anyone know if somehow the words for uterus and for
>poverty/lacking share some distant derivative?

All that the "middle" L & S is prepared to say on "uterus" is:
 >> hUSTERA      the womb, mostly in pl.  hUSTERAI,   etc. deriv. uncertain <<
and LSJ provides no derivation.


Maurice A. O'Sullivan  [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie






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