From: Adam Walker (carrajena@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 16:25:27 EST
--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@free.fr> wrote:
> En r廧onse ?Adam Walker :
>
>
> >What a bizzarre semantic field! You wouldn't
> happen
> >to know the etymology would you?
>
> The Online Hachette Encyclop嶮ie says that it
comes
> actually from the
> phrase "mords pion": "bite pawn"
Thanks. I have (after 1 hour of googling
[interspersed with more email]) found that the Spanish
is Tres in raya and the Italian is simply Tris. I
still can't find the Portuguese Catalan or Romanian or
any of the lesser Romlangs, but I think I have enough
to tell me that I can basically name the game anything
that makes sense to me since the names in the langs I
*have* found seem to be prety divergent even when
centered on a theme like Spanish and Italian. Maybe
I'll call it "uls Aravus ed Idajanus" -- "Arabs and
Italians".
The
> different uses become
> clear when you think of different ways to take
> "pion" metaphorically ;))) .
>
> Christophe Grandsire.
ahem. Thanks. TMI.
Adam
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