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  • lit. "knee", colloquially "generation". the Latin roots for 'generation' and 'knee' are almost identical; I wonder if SBC derived this word from that similarity.

    May 22, 2009

  • This is curious. I wonder if the linking idea is that of turning. Compare the Slavic root for "wheel" (kol-).

    May 22, 2009