SC - Fascinating etymological study / too much free time???
harper at idt.net
harper at idt.net
Fri Oct 13 20:40:35 PDT 2000
Grenon sounds something like grañones -- the Spanish word for
groats. Nola has a recipe for a kind of frumenty made with wheat groats
and almond milk. It seems to me that the minced-liver dish might look
something like boiled groats, but would taste *VERY* different, hence
"faux". I looked in a couple of online French dictionaries. The word for
groats is "gruau", but "grenon" may have been a borrowing or an
archaic usage. Just some wild-blue-yonder speculations...
Brighid (who was actually a French major, would you believe?)
Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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