[Am-info] Re: Foreskin of Technology, and technical discussions

[John J. Urbaniak]

"Glenn T. Livezey, Ph.D." wrote:

> "John J. Urbaniak" <jjurban@attglobal.net> wrote
> > To: Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Am-info] Re: Foreskin of technology
> > Geoffrey wrote:
> >>sturde@az.com wrote:
> >>> Someday you should meet a moil.
> >> I have to admit, I had to look it up, but M-W doesn't enlighten me
> >>here: 1:  hard work : DRUDGERY, 2 : CONFUSION, TURMOIL
> >> Would you care to??
> >It's a person (Rabbi?) who performs circumcisions.  But I thought it
> >was spelled moyle.  I'm not Jewish. John
>
> Talk about off topic (or is that 'off the top'? ;-), but to answer...
>
> mohel
>   (Heb. from m.h.l, cut, circumcise, cognate with milah) Jewish ritual
> circumcisor. Need not be a rabbi or a man. May be a doctor.
> (pl. mohalim, fem. mohalet, fem. pl. mohalot.) Mohalot are an
> innovation of the Reform movement, not recognised by Orthodox Judaism.
> There has been no corresponding agitation by mohalim to be allowed to
> circumcise baby girls.
>
> moyle/moyil
>      Yiddish for mohel
>
> FROM: http://www.circumstitions.com/Glossary2.html#RITUAL
>
> And I'm not Jewish either, but I am... oh never mind.
>

Well, we've certainly pushed back the foreskin of etymology on this one,
eh?

John