Andreas Johansson skrev:
> Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:
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>>BARDA (Germanic) -- found in Walloon and Swiss French, as well
>> as in Rumanian by way of Hungarian.
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> Could this related to "bearded" axes, ie. ones with a long tapering lower end of
> the blade?
Possibly.
>>LOMBARDUS -- "Timber axe" in Swiss dialects since Italians worked as
>> lumberers! Quite independent thus of the fact that Longobard means
>> "long-axe
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> Longobard is supposed to mean "long-beard", but maybe the axes were bearded
> ones. :)
That's a folk-etymology. The real one is probably from *barda "axe".
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