X99Lynx at aol.com wrote: >In Swedish, the sound a snake makes is called <va:s>. In Polish, a word for >snake is <was>. That's actually <wa,z.> (G: <we,z.a>), i.e. /vo~S/ /ve~Za/, from CSlav. *o~z^- < *angi-. ======================= Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl