[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't both "man" and those words for measurement come ultimately from > words for "hand" (similarly to words like "manual", as in labor)?
no. "manual" is derived from latin "manus" meaning "hand". the word "man" is related to (though not directly derived from) "mind", and the latin word "mens", which means "mind". -- Joost Kremers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
