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Re: A village challenge and questions ...
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:46:43 GMT
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 16:19:56 GMT, "James Powell"
<wx732@freenet.victoria.bc.ca> wrote:
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> > A ferrier is someone who maintains or operates a ferry
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> Neg, as the other James pointed out, a Ferrier is someone who shoes
> horses...like my wife's old boss in Victoria.
Well, a fErrier is someone who maintains or operates a ferry.
ferrier \Fer"ri*er\, n. A ferryman. --Calthrop
A fArrier is someone who shoes horses.
Both probably look the same, even going a ways back, but I would guess
that ferrier is ultimately dervied from the Latin verb fero, ferre,
tuli, latum, which means to bear, carry, etc.
Farrier seems to have been derived ultimately from the Latin ferrum,
meaning iron. Somewhere between Middle English and now ferrour,
blacksmith, became farrier.
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| (...) True. Fero/ferre is also a verb, whereas "ferrum" is a noun. As an indicator, the periodic table's entry for iron is still (and will always be) Fe. (...) There's also a few others interesting Latin metallurgical terms running around our world (...) (24 years ago, 22-Jan-00, to lugnet.castle)
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