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Help[Facts] Re: Ibis
in reply to a message by Nikida
The American Heritage Dictionary quoth:
Middle English ibin, from Latin îbis, from Greek, from Egyptian hbj.
The Egyptian word hbj may have a more obscure meaning, but many words for objects ultimately have no other meaning other than "a word to describe something we need a word to describe"--in this case, "ibis".
EDIT: + bold, just for the heck of it.
Miranda
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Middle English ibin, from Latin îbis, from Greek, from Egyptian hbj.
The Egyptian word hbj may have a more obscure meaning, but many words for objects ultimately have no other meaning other than "a word to describe something we need a word to describe"--in this case, "ibis".
EDIT: + bold, just for the heck of it.
Miranda
Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.
This message was edited 2/18/2006, 2:09 PM
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