Re: OT: an axe to grind

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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