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Subject: Re: Origin of "Forkapa"
Author: Jim Young   (guest, 87.102.75.217)
Date: June 6, 2007 at 5:05:18 AM
Reply to: Re: Origin of "Forkapa" by DForkapa
There is a Serbo-Croat word, Saren (ล aren), which an online dictionary translates as "multicoloured". So "multicoloured cap"? If that were the meaning - emphasis on "IF" - then it would raise the possibility of the kapa in Forkapa meaning "cap". Then, how to explain FOR-?

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