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<p>Posted by <b><!--poster-->Panu Petteri Höglund</b>
on <!--date-->14:14 11/5/01
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You tell you invented "elir" from scratch? I don't believe you. "El��"
happens to be Finnish for "to live". :) Or is this another demonstration
of the chance resemblances?
<hr><i>Mark responds:
<p>Most likely it's chance, I'm afraid. I used to browse a 26-language
dictionary when creating Verdurian words, which included Finnish, so it's
possible I saw <b>elää</b>. But I tended to be, if anything,
too literal about borrowings-- I wouldn't have modified the ending like that.
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