On Oct 8, 7:32 am, Joost Kremers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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.
Do not bluntly contradict me in public. > "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". So you assert, but "man" bears a much closer resemblance to "manus" than it does to "mens". Or are you proposing that the plural word "men" came first? That would be ... odd. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
