About the Yew1

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Sun Jul 8 02:26:21 UTC 2001


X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:

> But see <kassia/kasia>, Grk; <cassia/casia>, Lat, cinnamon tree, any tree
> "with an aromatic bark"; . . . Lat <caesor>, a hewer of trees;

<caedere> `to strike, beat, cut, kill'

> <Caesia Silva>, a forest in ancient Germany.

`bluish grey'

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