SC - Snoopy dance of joy!!
Joan Nicholson
gryphon at carlsbadnm.com
Wed May 24 21:28:49 PDT 2000
- --- CBlackwill at aol.com wrote:
> Isn't there a reference somewhere which indicates
> Roman soldiers were paid
> for their labors in salt? Or is this just another
> one of those "histories"
> we learn in school, which have no basis in the "real
> world"?
>
> Balthazar of Blackmoor
Actually, all you need is a good dictionary that gives
the etymology of words. Go to the word "salary", the
etymology section reads:
salary [ME 'salarie', from L 'salarium' salt money,
pension, salary, from neut. of 'salarius' of salt,
from 'sal' salt.]
ME = Middle English L = Latin
While you are at it, look up Lord and Lady in the
etymology section, you will find this:
Lord [ME 'loverd' lord, from OE 'hlaford', from 'hlaf'
loaf + 'weard' keeper]
Lady [ME, from OE 'hlæfdige', from 'hlaf' loaf +
'dige' kneader]
So in Old English, a Lord is a loaf keeper and a Lady
is a loaf kneader.
Interesting, huh?
Huette
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