[Lexicog] new nosey word

[Peter Kirk]

On 09/04/2004 12:29, Wayne Leman wrote:

> 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?
>
Not in Azerbaijani (Turkic), nor in biblical Hebrew (Semitic). In
biblical Hebrew the nose is associated rather with anger; but a long
nose means not great anger but "slow to anger". Thus the repeated
description of God as "slow to anger" means literally "long-nosed".

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Peter Kirk
peter at qaya.org (personal)
peterkirk at qaya.org (work)
http://www.qaya.org/



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