From rhclayto@loyno.edu Sun Sep 10 11:05:00 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA12194 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:05:00 -0700 Received: from nadal.loyno.edu (nadal.loyno.edu [141.164.24.217]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id LAA16511 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 11:04:59 -0700 Received: from nadal.loyno.edu (nadal.loyno.edu [141.164.24.217]) by nadal.loyno.edu (8.9.3/8.7) with ESMTP id NAA46518 for ; Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:04:09 -0500 Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:04:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Richard H. Clayton" To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re:International Hog Call from Latin? In-Reply-To: <9.a6a211f.26ed100e@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Having grown up in a rural area, I can tell you that I have heard swine called in this manner, but I cannot confirm the etymology of the word. Richard H. Clayton On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 Rudolphus9@aol.com wrote: > Sodales: > I was told recently that there is a widely used hog call for herding pigs. It > is "Sui! Sui! Sui!" [The spelling is mine. The person telling me this never > saw the hog call written down.] Supposedly this hog call is used in many > parts of the world, e.g., Commonwealth countries, Europe, the U.S., et al. My > questions are addressed to listees who may have grown up in rural > surroundings. As a city boy I can truthfully say that I have never heard [no > pun intended] a hog called! My questions are: > 1. Is this hog call in fact widely used? > 2. Is it from the Latin sus, suis ("pig, hog, boar")? Presumably it would be > the dative singular. > Thank you for any help you can provide. > Cheers! > Rudy Masciantonio > > Dr. Rudolph Masciantonio > Rudolphus9@aol.com > 429 S. 20th St. #A > Philadelphia, PA 19146 > 215 732-6431 > .