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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Robert Kelly</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:kelly@bard.edu">kelly@bard.edu</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.12.21 (03) [DE-EN-NDS]</span><br><br></span><font size="+1"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">Sanskrit </span><i style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">naga
</i><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">(in religion and myth a race of wise serpent beings who live under
the sea and deep within the earth). Originally IE *snaga -- unvoiced
in English as snake, and thus evidently in the Thai pronunciation of
Sanskrit/Pali.</span><br style="font-family: times new roman,serif;"><span style="font-family: times new roman,serif;">
RK<font size="2"><br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------<br><br></span></font></span></font></font><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span></font></p>
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span>Subject: <span><span></span></span></span></font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Etymology</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thank you, Robert.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The Low Saxon cognate is </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">snake</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ["snA:ke] ~ </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">snaak</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> [snA:k].</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">P.S.: All of you that celebrate it, please have a very happy Christmas and travel carefully if you must travel!</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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