[Buddha-l] Ordination and Vinaya

[Kate Marshall]

Could be, though to my mind all the words "lap, bosom; womb, interior;
female genital parts" imply security, warmth, comfort, support, creation,
giving, nurturing, receptiveness, intimacy, and love.

While orders and guilds are containers of people, is seems more likely to me 
that "gremium" evolved to encompass orders and guilds because such are often 
seen as nurturing, supportive centres for people.

Regards
Kate


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jkirk" <jkirk at spro.net>
To: "'Buddhist discussion forum'" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 8:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Ordination and Vinaya


>I can see how gremium/gremio evolved to encompass orders, or
> guilds--the word basically suggests a *container*, and an order
> or a guild is a container of people. Hows that for speculative
> etymology?
>
> The female genitalia part reminds me of slang, where womb is
> called *oven*--and the reverse might have eventuated with
> *gremium* being used to bowdlerize more factual terms for female
> genitalia.
>
> J-pedantica-K
> ===========
>
> Behalf Of David Casacuberta
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 1:59 PM
>
>
> Dear friends:
>
> 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.
>
>
> best wishes
>
> David
>
>
>
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