Pupek (was: Mexican automobiles)

[A. Maberry]

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> I've since checked on the Russian and learned that PUPA (or something like
> it) is the Russian word for 'navel'. So, it looks like PUPEK is Slavic; the
> German is DAS NABEL, so it is hard to see where Yiddish would have got PUPEK
> except from Slavic. (Not Hebrew, I'd think.)

FWIW, the Hebrew (Biblical and Modern) word for navel is TABUR.

Allen
maberry at u.washington.edu