[Lexicog] new nosey word

[Wayne Leman]

Good question, Fritz. I wonder if it's a European languages thing? Let's try
to find out. Those of you on the list who are studying the lexicons of
non-Indo-European languages, is the nose associated with inquisitiveness,
apart from any borrowing from a European language?

Wayne
http://committed.to/fieldtesting

> Wayne,
>
> I wonder why "inquisitiveness" is associated with the nose in many
> languages: nosey, to poke one's nose into (German: seine Nase
> in etwas stecken), to snoop (German: schnüffeln; French: fouiner).
> Although curiosity (German: Neugier = eagerness for news) is one thing,
> and inquisitiveness is another, there is a fine line between them.
>
> "Curiosity killed the cat," as they say,
>
> Fritz




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