>The recent discussion of the seemingly quaint charm of native names for
>objects of european technology brought to mind the quaint charm of some
>common Irish Gaelic words for non-technological things, to wit:
[examples deleted]
Mss Holmes and Smith in "Beginning Cherokee" list some examples in
English derived from Latin/Greek. My favorite is
nasturtium "it-wrings-the-nose"
Gary Ingle
garyi@halcyon.com
Seattle