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paul-bennett scripsit: > I don't actually know of any direct loans from Sumerian, Basque or > Burushaski (or any other isolates), but I'm prepared to accept willingly > that there are at least Basque (via French or Spanish) loans in use. Oddly, > I'm struggling to come up with Uralic and Caucasian loans, too. Basque: jai-alai, chaparral, silhouette. Finnish: sauna, various technical terms. -- Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter, Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): jcowan@hidden.email One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically http://www.reutershealth.com Challenges poets who / Don't have the time. --robison who's at texas dot net