What you're saying is very compelling but it's not absolute proof that the term wasnt use to indicate that, either way, these animals redigested their food! Your 'meaning of the words' comes from usage of course - or do you have an ancient Hebrew dictionary written back then? Common usage dictates meaning and now it may be actual cud regurgitation, at an earlier point it may have been more incusive regardless of the sub-meanings of parts of the word.
Words become definitions that are only as useful as their common usage.
[This message has been edited by Tranquility Base, 05-21-2002]