Posted by Jonathan Labaree on June 11, 2003 at 19:58:16 from 207.5.234.19 user JLabaree.
In Reply to: Re: Hirundo, was Robert's boat posted by Robert Thompson on June 11, 2003 at 18:03:10:
For the record, I had to look most of that stuff up, but I had a hunch that hirondelle was somehow related to the Latin word for swallow (pretty quick, aren't I, making a connection between a romance language and latin) and so wanted to pursue it. Glad it wasn't too esoteric.