Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Cutting/white weapon
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| Author: | ignacyn@vela.filg.uj.edu.pl> |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email |
| Query: |
Dear All, Does anyone have any idea, why the cutting weapon, as opposed to the firearms, is in some languages (mostly Romance ones) called "white weapon"? Is here the color symbolism the main factor or are there any "pure linguistic" reasons for that? And, what more important, does anyone know any non-european languages in which the cutting weapon is also called "white"? all the bes Ignacy |
