Re: CHAT: Opperlands
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| Date: | Wednesday, May 12, 1999, 20:25 |
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Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 12/05/99 21:03:34 , vous avez =E9crit :
<< Not really surprising, since Danish has borrowed a lot of nautical
terms from Dutch, but I always assumed it was some weird metaphorical
use of the homonym "tone" (meaning "tone" or "sound" in English). >>
Not weird at all : the only "toon" I can find in my out-worn Dutch-French=20
dictionary is actually French "ton" (Eng. "tone"). Deriving "toon" from=20
"tonen" is an effect of my own imagination :-) Jutes and Saxons may have the=20
same weird habits. What do Rempt & Rempt think of it ?
Mathias