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[CONNOLLY at LATTE.MEMPHIS.EDU]

>I heard once of a German word `assloch' = "anus".

The German word is _Arschloch_ with /s^/.  The /r/ is weak, but distinguishable
from *Aschloch 'ash hole'.

(Since this is a historical list, after all, I should point out that the German
word is now vulgar but was once respectable.  It appears in Old High German as
_arsloh_, used to gloss Latin _anus_.)

Leo

Leo A. Connolly                         Foreign Languages & Literatures
connolly at latte.memphis.edu              University of Memphis