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To: a_Turk
How many dirty words lasted all these years? LOL!
102 posted on 12/05/2003 4:38:01 PM PST by BobS
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To: BobS
How many dirty words lasted all these years? LOL!

Bengtson and ruhlen have complied a list of 27 etymologies that are found world-wide. One of them is "dirty":

21. *PUTI—'vulva' —— English slang poontang < French putaine 'whore' < Vulgar Latin putta 'girl' < Proto-Indo-European *puto 'cunnus' > Sanskrit putau 'buttocks', Nepali puti 'vulva' Old Icelandic fuð 'cunnus', Middle High German vut 'vulva';

Malinke butu 'vulva';

Songhai buti 'vulva';

Proto-Afro-Asiatic *pwt 'hole, anus, vulva', Hebrew pot 'vulva' ("secret parts" in the King James Version, Isaiah 3:17), Somali futo 'anus', Oromo fudji 'vulva';

Tamil puNTai 'vulva', poccu 'vulva, anus';

Malayalam pûru 'buttocks, vulva';

Kannada pucci 'vulva'; Telugu pûDa 'anus'; Tulu pûTi 'vulva';

Middle Mongolian hütü-gün 'vulva';

Old Japanese photo 'vulva' (mod. hoto);

Proto-Eskimo-Aleut *putu 'hole';

Proto-Caucasian *put‘i '(female) genitals'; Svan put‘u 'hole';

Basque poto-rro 'pubis, vulva';

Australian Aboriginal Luridya puda 'vulva';

Maori puta, Tagalog puki 'vulva';

Delaware saputti 'anus'; Mohegan sebud 'vagina'; Chinook puch 'penis'; Quechua upiti 'anus', Aymara phuthu 'hole'

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103 posted on 12/05/2003 7:07:35 PM PST by Virginia-American
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