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Cheese is all in all an obvious way to conserve milk for a long period. So probably it got produced from the moment cattle was kept.
No idea how this could tell us more about 'caseus'.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Anton Sherwood
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [romconlang] caseus
Frank Verhoft wrote:
> Latin "caseus" entered the Germanic languages very early, together
> with the new "Roman" way of making cheese. Before, the Germani only
> knew a kind of quark cheese.
Leaving aside the obvious pun (because I can't think of a good one),
where was cheese *first* made?
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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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