[86342] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: News from Maltz
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Everson)
Tue Jul 28 13:53:49 2009
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <4A6F21CA.1080402@trimboli.name>
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:51:09 +0100
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
On 28 Jul 2009, at 17:05, David Trimboli wrote:
>>> My guess is that it sounds like "villain," which is the sort of
>>> person who nearly always has minions.
>>
>> Also, wasn't there an old English word "villein" that meant something
>> like servant or minion?
>
> You're right, that's it. A villein was a low-class farmer, just one
> step above a serf. It's also the linguistic source of the word
> "villain."
Well this is very peculiar, because I posted about "villain" about
nine hours ago and it still hasn't turned up on this list.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
