The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #80325   Message #1464288
Posted By: Abby Sale
18-Apr-05 - 09:40 AM
Thread Name: Happy! - April 17
Subject: RE: Happy! - April 17
No wonder if many are not familiar with the term. Oddly, there doesn't seem to be any Anglo or Saxon or even Romance word for it. (I haven't checked into Slavic yet.) "Cannibal" comes from a Carib indian term. Far as I can tell, all the Romance and Germanic languages use some variation of the Greek, anthropopagus. Makes me wonder what the Greeks were about that was different from the rest of Europe.