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[Susan Fox-Davis]

<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.