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From: alderson@netcom8.netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: EKWO > HIPPOS QUESTION
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It should also be mentioned that _hippos_ is the Attic form, while the word
appears in Ionic (as, for example, in Herodotos), as _hikkos_.  Interesting
little problem, hmm?
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
