[Sca-cooks] Onagers

Phlip phlip at 99main.com
Fri Dec 17 16:34:35 PST 2004


Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> I get jumpy when my frame has tension and takes impacts too.  I believe
the
> greek word for donkey is onus and it mutated into onager for the English.
>
>
> Cadoc

Onus is actually "burden" in Latin. I may have migrated over from the Greek,
but if so it would more likely have been "onos"- the "us" suffix is
distinctly Latin- masculine, singular, and nominative.

Saint Phlip,


Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary

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