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3355 tungol65 Send Email Mar 15, 2004
3:38 pm
... <hakans@w...> ... rhyme ... called "Kernow" ... "Charter" is derived from "chartula"; from the same Latin root as "card", and means roughly a small piece of...
3356 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 15, 2004
4:14 pm
... core ... written/read ... Yeah, I thought so.. It wasn't an answer to my post, tho.. =S Ah, well.. Didn't Latin use "C" and "CH" was a development in...
3357 tungol65 Send Email Mar 15, 2004
7:48 pm
Here is another of my bible stories for comment. I'm not very religious, but bible stories are useful as you can get the same passages available in all the...
3358 Aron Boström
syllten Send Email
Mar 15, 2004
9:01 pm
Hi, my first post. I'm a newbie so I don't know the behaving rules here yet. ... Scandinavian forms: (dwell-setting) scanish: bo|sedning (or bo|síddning) ...
3359 tungol65 Send Email Mar 15, 2004
9:58 pm
... here yet. ... Thank you for that and welcome to the group. Regards...
3360 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 15, 2004
10:44 pm
I think "manig" would be better than "fél", since viel only exists in german and dutch, and also doesn't conform to FS ortography... Dutch has "menig" german...
3361 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 15, 2004
10:47 pm
... rules ... I think the general word is "scanian", tho.....
3362 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 15, 2004
11:29 pm
OK, I think I get it now... "ferbranden&quot; would probably mean "burn up", I guess "to dry" would be "droochen";(?) or something.. OK, nice.. ... him, ... folk ......
3363 Aron Boström
syllten Send Email
Mar 15, 2004
11:44 pm
... Thanks and oops, yes it is "scanian" (embarrasing, it's my mother tongue). Maybe I should introduce myself: My name is Aron Boström. I'm a young scanian...
3364 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 15, 2004
11:50 pm
1. akso - I don't think the "so" is necessary, since in scandinavian languages, it is basically used to separate it from "och" meaning "and". Which isn't...
3365 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 16, 2004
12:08 am
... tongue). ... as my hobby. ... tries to ... constructed ... I just ... skills in ... knowledges in old ... Yeah, stark is good, old english: stark, ... ...
3366 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 16, 2004
2:43 am
Huuhm, now I have some idea about very/much/sehr/viel.. OK, personal opinion... Many - Manig More - Meer Most - Mest Much - Mykel(?) Muk? - Think this word...
3367 tungol65 Send Email Mar 16, 2004
8:49 am
... Yes this looks good. ... I would go with "mykel". "Mickle" appears in English dialects especially Scots, but I think a lot of English speakers would ...
3368 tungol65 Send Email Mar 16, 2004
9:43 am
... ago ... Yeah I would go with "stark", it can still have the meaning of strong in English. ... I would go with "raad/rád" to. (I just use an accent in...
3369 tungol65 Send Email Mar 16, 2004
10:32 am
... scandinavian ... Yes I prefer dropping the -so, I only used it because that form had been widely used by other in previous postings. I would go with "ek" ...
3370 tungol65 Send Email Mar 16, 2004
11:48 am
... Interesting about farmer, I just looked up its origin. I didn't know that before. Yeah German has "Bauer" with a "u", so I guess "búer" is better. ... ...
3371 Aron Boström
syllten Send Email
Mar 16, 2004
1:36 pm
... What is a cognate? ... "a federation" is in swe. "en federation" or "ett förbund". A "förbund" also means a treaty/pact/agreement/alliance. In sca. it is...
3372 tungol65 Send Email Mar 16, 2004
5:50 pm
... Cognates are words that have a similar form and usually a similar meaning in different languages. This word can be traced back to an original word in an...
3373 tungol65 Send Email Mar 16, 2004
5:58 pm
... A "förbund" also ... fårrbonn". ... do with ... Yes all these words "bind", "bound", "bond", "band", "Bundes" are all derived from the same root. Regards...
3374 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:08 am
... be ... PG ... In swedish, it is "besla"ktat ord" or "sla"ktskapsord" I think.. =P...
3375 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:18 am
... strange... ... and "manig". And modern scandinavian has (probably) the same word in comparative and superlative form (Not in the "basic"(?) form, though.) ...
3376 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:18 am
... It isn't that common, but it is very "Proto".. =P Also, that makes it a more neutral word of choice.....
3377 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:31 am
... phrases ... Hmmm, I would say the latin word is more exact, tho... ... some ... read ... I don't know, I think these strange archaic words should be...
3378 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:38 am
... word ... had ... with "ek" ... in ... ickname" ... Actually, it's used the other way around, generally.. "E*" is used for the oak tree, and "O*" for...
3379 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:46 am
... tho, ... know ... is ... Hmm, in swedish, the word "fra"ta" ususally means something like "To form (a passage or channel etc.) by erosion or abrasion." ...
3380 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
1:53 am
... to ... all ... Probably comes from some sort of figurative sense of tying/binding oneself into something... I.e. being stuck to it/being close together(/to...
3381 tungol65 Send Email Mar 17, 2004
4:10 am
... I agree, but "Gau" and "gea" are not archaic. I think if 2 or 3 Germanic languages out of the 8 or 9 being considered have a similar word where the others...
3382 tungol65 Send Email Mar 17, 2004
4:12 am
... <hakans@w...> ... itself ... OK, fair enough. "ok" for also and "eik" for oak???? ... think ... from...
3383 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
5:51 am
... has "gea" ... which ... county ... I ... choosen ... similar ... Uh, yes, if one of the languages are english or german, I think so, at least as synonyms.....
3384 wakuran_wakaran Send Email Mar 17, 2004
5:53 am
... differnet ... form ... used ... scandinavian, ... Allright. That looks good.....
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