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Re: OT: an axe to grind

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Friday, February 10, 2006, 22:36
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:


> BARDA (Germanic) -- found in Walloon and Swiss French, as well > as in Rumanian by way of Hungarian.
Could this related to "bearded" axes, ie. ones with a long tapering lower end of the blade?
> LOMBARDUS -- "Timber axe" in Swiss dialects since Italians worked as > lumberers! Quite independent thus of the fact that Longobard means > "long-axe
Longobard is supposed to mean "long-beard", but maybe the axes were bearded ones. :) Andreas

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