----- Original Message -----
From: "Mathias Roesel" <mathias.roe...@t-online.de>
To: "'Lutelist'" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 6:25 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gynocentricityness
Erm, did somebody mention already that gyne in Greek is neither
a-declension
nor o-declension? It's gyné, gynaikós, gynaikí, gynaika, and in compounds
it's gynaiko- like in gynecologist, gynecology, gynecological, and
gynecotropism.
Gynoecium (generic term for all kinds of sporophyll) is derived from Latin
gynaeceum, which is derived from Greek gynaikeion.
From a graecist's perspective, gynocentrism is a wrongly built word and
should be replaced by gynecocentrism. The latter is the case at least in
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynecocentrism#Terminology
My two cents.
Mathias
Thanks for that. It seems I was half right.....
MOnica
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] Im
Auftrag von Eugene C. Braig IV
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011 18:28
An: 'Monica Hall'; 'howard posner'
Cc: 'Lutelist'
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Gynocentricityness
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
> Behalf Of Monica Hall
> Sent: Sunday, July 03, 2011 11:14 AM
> To: howard posner
> Cc: Lutelist
> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Gynocentricityness
>
> > You might be interested to know that the The Random House Dictionary
> > of the English Language, Unabridged Edition (1968) p. 632, defines
"gyno-"
> as
> > "a learned borrowing from Greek meaning 'female,' 'woman,' used in
> > the formation of compound words [e.g.] gynophore."
>
> Which is American. I checked the Complete Oxford Dictionary on-line
and
> all the sources it quotes seem to be American including the earliest
> usage.
> Well - we all know Americans spell things in a funny way..
>
> So it appears you're just insufficiently learned, just like the rest
> of us.
>
> Maybe.....
>
> Monica
Me too, but at least I'm easily humored (or is that humoured?).
Eugene
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