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From: Ivison dos Passos Martins <<a href="mailto:ipm7d@OI.COM.BR">ipm7d@OI.COM.BR</a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br>
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Dear Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
I was reading something in Dutch and I ran into a word that is very<br>
similar to English "Fee". It's vee, which means cattle. The fact is
that<br>
there is a connection between these two words. If I'm not wrong, the<br>
word "FEE" in OE (Old English) meant cattle. As in Portuguese the
Latin<br>
word for those animals became our word "pecunia" which means
money. As<br>
the old comunities used animals as money, it's not surprising that the<br>
word fee which came from Old English feoh, became fee - money you pay for<br>
a service.<br>
There's another word in English related to money, it's salary (salt).<br>
The word salary comes from Latin Salarium, money given to soldiers.<br>
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God bless.<br>
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