SC - pickled limes
Joan Nicholson
gryphon at carlsbadnm.com
Tue Aug 22 08:56:14 PDT 2000
<whapping forehead> That's it! Cognate with _sanglier_ from the French,
right? The things I learned from Asterix comics, sheesh.
"Signale" put the image in my head of some wild beast of the woods with
sempahore flags. I need to get out more.
Selene
TG wrote:
> > but Signale completely baffles me,
>
> According to Battaglia 18.468a _signale_, _cignale_ etc. are variant
> forms that belong to _cinghiale_; it means something like 'wild boar,
> wild sow'.
>
> More later,
> Th.
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