[Buddha-l] Ordination and Vinaya

[Richard Hayes]

On Jul 22, 2009, at 1:58 PM, David Casacuberta wrote:

> If it helps, in Spanish, "gremio",  can be translated as "Guild" so I
> guess both the German and the Spanish come from a common latin root.


One suspects the common Latin root is "gremium," which means a lap or  
a womb. Now the only mysteries remaining to be solved are 1) why does  
a word meaning a lap or a womb come to mean a committee or a guild,  
and 2) why would an  American anthropologist think that laps and wombs  
are unmentionable?

Dayamaticus Supercilius