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  • the word HUMUS (with extra S) -------- vir bonus dicendi peritus

    From HenHanna@HenHanna@Posting.from.CsiPh to alt.languages.latin,sci.lang,sci.lang.translation on Mon Jun 1 20:31:57 2026
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    vir bonus dicendi peritus


    ------- Today I looked for cognates of peritus
    in English and French and found that....


    (peril, pirate)


    Hen Hanna <henhanna@gmail.com> wrote:

    the word HUMUS looks and sounds SO MUCH like a Latin word !!!



    i'm using https://groups.google.com/g/alt.language.latin/

    (with extra S) https://groups.google.com/g/alt.languages.latin/






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  • From wugi@wugi@brol.invalid to alt.languages.latin,sci.lang,sci.lang.translation on Wed Jun 3 12:35:14 2026
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    Op 1/06/2026 om 22:31 schreef HenHanna:


    vir bonus dicendi peritus


    ------- Today I looked for cognates of peritus
    in English and French and found that....


    (peril, pirate)

    That's mixing different (x)-es of the per-(x) etymology, see https://www.etymonline.com/word/*per-#etymonline_v_52726

    Sp. perito, not to be confused with perrito, doggie;-)

    So, the Perito Moreno is not a darkskinned little dog, but the expert [Francisco] Moreno, which name and title were used, in his honor, to
    name the famous glacier we've been able to visit some years ago.
    --
    guido wugi

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