fruit of the vine

Anton Sherwood bronto at pobox.com
Sun Jul 15 03:50:24 UTC 2001


Douglas G Kilday wrote:

> . . . Lat. <u:va> orig. 'cluster of berries or grapes' . . .
> later 'single grape'. Observe the parallel decollectivization
> in Fr. <raisin> < Lat. <race:mus>.

And, in turn, Eng. <grape> < Fr. <grappe> `bunch (of grapes)'.

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