Re: USAGE: German VhC pronunciation

John Cowan said:
> Mark P. Line scripsit:
>
>> The digraph 'aa' occurs in
>> 'Staat', but I can't think of more examples for that one either.)
>
> Poking through ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/doc/dict/german-wordlist.new.gz
> ,
> which is just a wordlist, not a dictionary, I find the following roots
> (capitalizations are lost): staat, paar, saat, saal, haar, waage,
> waagen, isaak, maar, maas, aal, staal.
Cool. 'Maar' is a geological term that I'd very nearly forgotten about
(though I've seen a few in the Eifel, and knew they were called that at
the time). 'Maas' must be the river, since it's not in Wahrig. There's
also 'Maat', a "mate" in the maritime sense. I have no idea where they got
'staal': it's not in Wahrig, and a brief scan of google hits showed only
surnames and Dutch/Flemish pages.

I should have been able to think of most of these. Clearly, my mental
lexicon is not very well indexed by grapheme or internal phoneme...


-- Mark

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