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From: petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich)
Subject: Re: Chinese Contrary to John Halloran's Thesis?
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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 09:15:10 GMT
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In article <seagoat.585.004D8B7B@primenet.com>,
John A. Halloran <seagoat@primenet.com> wrote:

>In article <petrichDyHJGJ.AB6@netcom.com> petrich@netcom.com (Loren Petrich) writes:
... And did you notice one big blooper: "donkey" 
>>from "sky" + "grain"???

>It wasn't worth responding at the time, but <an> can also mean 'to be high', 
>so I envisioned this as a characterization for 'pack animals' who carried 
>grain.  Who knows, this might actually be a narrow window into life back then.

	So it's something like "high grain"? I'd expect something more 
like "grain carrier".
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