Here is this week's haul of choice words Words marked with a *, are present in only 2 out of 4 source languages but have the saving grace of being widely used...
... languages ... European ... expression. ... SV avancerad, unless referrin to a neuter noun, or abstract "det. I would probably have avancéred ... delfin, ...
... Courant is hardly "courant" in this meaning in Holland. The main meaning (and even then it's archaic) is "newspaper". The normal word for newspaper is...
... contemporanee ... Probably "modern" would be the preferred word in FS anyway. ... words ... When I list a new Folksprak word, I give only the words in the...
... jakt, ... Yes, in my dialect, "jacht" also is the noun for hunt/chase. I thought about spelling it as "yacht" as "yacht" to distinguish it. Keeping it as a...
... source ... So ... blank ... the ... to ... exact ... more ... different. ... I read that the Scandinavian word was unrelated to the Latin word, although it...
... another ... thought ... it ... but ... be ... and ... There are some words, actually, such as "tastatur", the German, Danish (?) and Norwegian word for...
Ah good, you're awake, Hakans. I'm also looking for some words for newspapers/magazines. Can any Scandies out there tell me if words related to NL blad, and DE...
... Your right, I had never encounterd "Leichnam" before. If that's the case, then "lickam" becomes a lot more valid. And if it's true what you say about...
... Yes that makes sense. I still think we can have two meanings for "jacht". 1. = hunt/chase. 2. = yacht, pleasure boat. In most cases, it would be obvious...
... SV Lekamen is still in use for sacramental bread, "Jesu lekamen för dig utgiven" is a std. phrase in church. But apart from that it is very archaic. I...
... dutch also uses "tijding" with the same meaning as english. Jan-Willem Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com...
... In SV the main word is "tidning" and in DA I think the main word is "avis". The main SCY word used to be tidning, but the modern DA borrowing "avis" has ...
... In SV (or at least in SCY) there often is a distinction made by adding -båt (boat) at the end for the boat. Thus SV jakt means a hunting and SV jaktbåt...
... DE ... Yeah, I believe it is in Swedish, although it is quite rare and archaic, actually I think one of Norway's biggest newspapersis called "Dagbladet". ...
... Swedish ... was the ... the ... what ... they ... thriving) and ... bier ... itself ... much ... "Lich" was used for "corpse", not "body", right. I believe...
... synonym. ... common ... FS. ... is in ... always ... related/cognate ... have ... valid for ... plus ... presence of ... Swedish ... the ... dig ... ...
... Could be, but DE jagd, NL jacht, SV jakt should give precedence to jacht... That would depend on how regular we would like the language to be. Similar to...
... and DE ... and ... is "avis". ... borrowing "avis" has ... Dagblad, ... Dagbladet, ... as ... (Göteborgs ... organisation ... morgonblad, ... words, ... ...
... The swedish paper "sydsvenskan" (sydsvenskan.se) is officially called "Sydsvenska Dagbladet". And there's of course Svenska Dagbladet (www.svd.se). In...
... Hate to tell it, but it's actual name is "Sydsvenska Dagbladet Snällposten", it was two newspaper who merged in the early 20th cent. (Sydsvenska Dagbladet...
... I checked their site (http://sydsvenskan.se/omsydsv/ to be precise), where no mention whatsoever is made of Snällposten. So the merger is probably more or...
... It's abbreviation SDS (Sydsv.. Dagb... Snä..) still is in uses, but noone uses anything but the name "Sydsvenskan". Their main homepage is terribly...
... Yes, the reason I asked was, would a word like dagblad be acceptable as the FS word for newspaper? Since you also have NL dagblad, weekblad, and DE Blatt,...
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