Etymology of the words ???????, ??????, ?????????

[Hugh McLean]

Re "sportsmen." I remember teaching Turgenev's Zapiski Oxotnika, 
translated by Mrs. Garnett as "A Sportsman's Sketches."  Students 
thought it would be about an athlete and were disappointed.

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