Well, it could mean lots of things in lots of languages, but that doesn't help.
Tom Send a noteboard - 10/07/2012 01:29:07 PM
False friends exist in lots of languages for lots of words. The Russian word for "dick", for example, is pronounced (roughly) hooey, something that one hears in old English-language movies meaning "nonsense". While it is possible that the English use is derived from the Russian, the Russian isn't derived from the English. If jism means something like ejaculate in Hindi, I would be intrigued, but if it's totally unrelated (like the Persian chesm for "eye" or something like that), then it's just coincidence. Rotten coincidence.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
As a lover of linguistics it makes me sad that the etymology of "jism" is unknown.
- 10/07/2012 01:00:18 AM
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Re: As a lover of linguistics it makes you sad that the etymology of "jism" is unknown.
- 10/07/2012 01:45:52 AM
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Doesn't it mean something in Hindi? *NM*
- 10/07/2012 01:53:18 AM
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Well, it could mean lots of things in lots of languages, but that doesn't help.
- 10/07/2012 01:29:07 PM
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Um, does jism in English mean ejaculate? If I remember my Hindi correctly, jism=body. *NM*
- 11/07/2012 01:12:42 AM
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Yes, as in "I got jism all over the sheets because I pulled out to come on her ass and missed." *NM*
- 11/07/2012 01:17:55 AM
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to know it means that. 
at your example
Etymonline has a theory.
- 10/07/2012 08:38:36 AM
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I read a great article that utterly demolishes that hypothesis.
- 10/07/2012 01:24:40 PM
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I thought it sounded a little shaky.
- 10/07/2012 06:15:05 PM
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I can't find the better article, but there is one that highlights the issue
- 10/07/2012 08:10:54 PM
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I'm sorry to disappoint, but I'm fairly certain that sheep do have a pharyngeal reflex.
- 10/07/2012 10:28:41 AM
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Well you've obviously never tried to...wait, let's just pretend I didn't say that.
- 10/07/2012 01:30:12 PM
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or a vet. or anyone who studied A&P
- 10/07/2012 02:03:44 PM
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You're both really overthinking it. *NM*
- 10/07/2012 04:27:51 PM
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Next they'll be saying that Dick-in-Mouth Disease isn't real 
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- 10/07/2012 09:04:49 PM
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