Pupek (was: Mexican automobiles)

[Peter McGraw]

>From a native Czech of my (very close) acquaintance, in reply to my
query to her:

What's that got to do with Mexican automobiles?

Anyway, yeah, it's a Czech word, but for all I know it may come from Yiddish
originally, because a lot of Czech--mainly colloquial--words do (either from
Yiddish or from German). "Pupek" is not just a child's or generally
colloquial word, though--it's the "standard" word for "navel."

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 11:36:24 EDT RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> Isn't this of Slavic origin? My memory is that the Czech kids in my
> childhood neighborhood used /pupek/ for 'navel'. DInIs?
>
>  *****in reply to:
> (BTW, for the Yiddish-impaired, "puppik" /'pUpIk/ = 'bellybutton'.)

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Peter A. McGraw
Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon
pmcgraw at linfield.edu