Fallow Deer/A Closer Look

[Anton Sherwood]

> X99Lynx wrote

>> AND finally, starting with Homer -

>> dama:r - wife, spouse

>> NOTE that most of the early references above are to a variety of
>> mostly domestic animals [...]

Eduard Selleslagh wrote:
> Wife = domesticated animal??????  I know those were backward times,
> but still....

Or a domesticatING animal.
`Dame' is related to `domestic' as well as `dominate'...

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