Relic (was: German and Russian adjectives)

Am Mon, 10 Oct 2005 03:17:45 GMT schrieb Peter T. Daniels:

>
> But a relic is usually something that's old _and holy_.
>
> There's a huge mausoleum in a Catholic cemetery in Chicago that has
> panel after panel of relics along the corridors of crypts, and each
> panel has lots and lots of saints' relics -- each of them the size of a
> pinhead, maybe, labeled fragments of bone of this or that saint.

Ah, interesting. In German we have two different word for the two meanings
of "relic": "Relikt" is a leftover/trace, while "Reliquie" denotes
conserved body parts of saints.

(BTW my dictionary gives also "Hangover" as translation for "Relikt". I did
not know that there was also a non-alcohol-related meaning to "hangover")

Joachim
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