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--- Anton Sherwood skrzypszy: > > CAPUT vs. TESTA (Italian testa, French tete). > > Iberia stuck with CAPUT, I don't know what Romania did. > > I meant specialized use within one language, as elsewhere in the > doublets thread. A better example: <capo> v <testa>, <chef> v <te^te> > and so on. (I guess Spanish <jefe> comes from French?) Wenedyk has: - kap "head" - szef "boss" - cieszta "pot" and derivates like "kaptan'", "kapital", etc. Jan ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer