On Saturday, October 22, 2022 at 12:10:32 PM UTC-4, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> Sat, 22 Oct 2022 07:50:32 -0700 (PDT): "Peter T. Daniels"
> <
gram...@verizon.net> scribeva:
> >On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 3:02:54 PM UTC-4,
daud....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 8:54:09 AM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> >> > On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 12:47:56 AM UTC-4,
daud....@gmail.com wrote:
> >> > > On Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 9:28:01 AM UTC-4, Ruud Harmsen wrote:
> >> > > > Wed, 19 Oct 2022 23:07:26 -0700 (PDT): Daud Deden
> >> > > > <
daud....@gmail.com> scribeva:
> >
> >> > > > >The mysterious and enigmatic "Ksar Draa", about fifty kilometers from the red city of Timimoun, in the middle of the Algerian Sahara.
> >> > > > >(Ksar in Berber or Arabic means fortified village or fort).
> >> > > citadel (n.)
> >> > > "fortress commanding a city," 1580s, from French citadelle (15c.), from Italian cittadella, diminutive of Old Italian cittade "city" (Modern Italian citta), from Latin civitatem (nominative civitas; also source of Portuguese citadella, Spanish ciuadela; see city).
> >> > > > You mean qaSar, a totally different and unrelated word:
> >> > > I pasted the defn. Ksar, qsar from that site.
> >> > k and q are NOT interchangeable in Arabic.
> >>
> >> No, but the site wrote them as if they are (ksar, qsar). Perhaps in Berber.
> >
> >Arab. kalb = dog, qalb = heart
> Yes, and qaHqaHa means "to cough". Daud Deden will of course think
> these two are related. And they are.