Reply-To: elfling@egroups.com Message-Id: s8103610.013@VIVI-2 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:01:18 +0200 From: "Bjorn Fromen" To: elfling@egroups.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Orion and Mercure Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Didier Willis wrote: > A word _macar_ occurs in The=20 >Etymologies, but with the meaning "merchant", which is=20 >definitively not appropriate here.=20 Since the base of this _makar_ is MBAKH- and its Noldorin counterpart=20 is _bachor_, I wouldn't be surprised if the -k- is in fact a misprint for = -h-. - - Bj=F6rn From=E9n