Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:21:09 -0500 (EST) From: The King of Etruria <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] To: Stan Mulaik <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Italian "moglie" < Lat. mulier? In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Status: R On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Stan Mulaik wrote: > The Italian word for wife or "woman", "moglie". Is this derived from > Latin "mulier" or "mulieris"? The Italian for wife is moglie. The Italian for woman, though, is donna. And, yes, I am pretty sure that moglie is from mulier. -Kristina Kristina Killgrove http://faraday.clas.virginia.edu/~kk2e >>>>>>>>>Stan Mulaik