Re: [OT]: a strange language name abbreviation

From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Fri Aug 06 2010 - 16:10:37 CDT

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    On 08/06/2010 04:42 PM, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
    > Exploring the dictionary with the search engine (which is operational
    > since today morning ...) I discovered two occurences of an unexplained
    > abbreviation which refers to a language in which "silvir" means
    > "silver" and "ses" means "six". The name of the language is
    > abbreviated as "Kimr."
    >

    I don't know about "silvir", but "ses" is six in Esperanto, and in
    Esperanto, Welsh is "kimra" (from Cymro/Cymraeg). Does that fit the
    context?

    ~mark



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