Re: queries from the language-impaired
Posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 01, 2000 at 15:39:40:
In Reply to: queries from the language-impaired posted by Catherine Cartwright Jones on February 01, 2000 at 02:53:53:
Another one ... "kyprosstaude" that produces "ein beleibtes duftendes
Oil-gab" from ""Lawsonia alba, Alhenna, Cyperblume in Hohenliede
Salom. I, 14, die aber erst Theophrast, Discorides, Plinius
beschreiben." Ritter, 1844, vol. 11, pp. 577-78 "Die Erdkunde im
Verhaltnis zur Natur und zur Geschichte des Menschen, oder allgemeine
vergleichende Geographie. "
The discussion at hand is whether "kyprosstaude" and other cyperus
related words are referring to henna .... some authors think they
refer to the flowering henna tree rather than the bush kept plucked
short for dye ... and that is a correct assumption it answers a whole
pile of questions.......