"Monica Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I wonder now if it has a completely different derivation. The verb > "requiro" in Latin means to "look for again", "miss something" or "feel the > lack of". That sounds a bit like a re-entrant tuning where the tuning looks > for the note again, or has something missing.
yes, but: requinto is not derived from requiro (participle of requiro is requesto). Best, Mathias -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html