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From: Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com>
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Subject: Re: Crus, Crures (quod pectus, quod crura tibi, quod bracchia vellis)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:45:15 +0100
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On 2024-06-11, Ross Clark wrote:

> On 11/06/2024 9:49 p.m., Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>> 
>>   Ar an naoiú lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh HenHanna:
>> 
>>   > Crus, Crures ("leg") is Not related to Latin crusta (“shell”)
>>   >
>>   >            https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Crustacea  is not related
>>   >
>>   > Crus, Crures ("leg") is Not related to any word in English or French
>> 
>> “Crural” exists in anatomy jargon and is used by those who use anatomy jargon.
>> It would not shock me if something similar were the case in French.
>> 
>> https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=%22crural%22
>> 
>>
> Et voilà! There it is in French, same spelling, same origin. Both words 
> first appear in the 16th century (OED 1599, translation of a work by 
> Gaebelkhover; Dauzat says XVI century, from the anatomist Ambroise Paré).
>
> So a direct borrowing from Latin, not an inherited word. Apparently crus 
> was replaced in late Latin by gamba, originally 'horse's leg'.
> While "foot" (PIE *ped-) is one of the great stable items, words for 
> 'leg' seem to be much more volatile. (Of course many languages get along 
> without a primary lexical distinction between the two.)

I assume that "gamba" is the source of Modern French "jambe", and
probablyu also "jambon" (ham)?


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