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Re: [romanceconlang] Sports

--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@hidden.email> wrote:
> En r&#24295;onse ?Adam Walker :
> 
> 
> >What a bizzarre semantic field!  You wouldn't
> happen
> >to know the etymology would you?
> 
> The Online Hachette Encyclop&#23982;ie says that it
comes
> actually from the 
> phrase "mords pion": "bite pawn" 

Thanks.  I have (after 1 hour of googling
[interspersed with more email]) found that the Spanish
is Tres in raya and the Italian is simply Tris.  I
still can't find the Portuguese Catalan or Romanian or
any of the lesser Romlangs, but I think I have enough
to tell me that I can basically name the game anything
that makes sense to me since the names in the langs I
*have* found seem to be prety divergent even when
centered on a theme like Spanish and Italian.  Maybe
I'll call it "uls Aravus ed Idajanus" -- "Arabs and
Italians".



The
> different uses become 
> clear when you think of different ways to take
> "pion" metaphorically ;))) .
> 
> Christophe Grandsire.

ahem.  Thanks.  TMI.

Adam