Re: Dust-sucker [Was: Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages]
- From: "Richard Wordingham" <jrw0602@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:34:21 GMT
"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Suck" has been a four-letter word since as far back as English has
been recorded.
Indeed?
Onions gives its principle parts in Old English as sūcan, *sēac, sucon, -socen, which rather suggests that it is the four-letter forms that are missing!
Richard.
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