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From: feldstei@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Ronald F. Feldstein)
Subject: Re: Question on Romance lexicon
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The relation of "red" to worm color is also known to Slavic.  Cf. 
Polish czerwony from original chirv-i (I wish ASCII had jers).


