ext_1990 ([identity profile] ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] fox 2002-12-11 11:41 pm (UTC)

I dream about grammar. And once (admittedly, this was after an evening of browsing the Indo-European Roots Appendix to the American Heritage Dictionary) I dreamed a long, complex, and totally spurious etymology for the word "fetish". Managed to derive it, "fetus," and "fetid" from a root meaning "to cook" or "to boil."

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