Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> --- Andreas Johansson skrzypszy:
>
> > Would "Koevoets" be pronounced something like [ku:fu:ts]? If so, it
>sounds
> > unpleasantly much like the (indefinite) genitive of Swedish _kofot_, lit
> > "cow-foot", meaning "crowbar".
>
>Then I've got news for you: a "koevoet" IS a crowbar (in the genitive
>form)!
And it breaks down to _koe_ "cow" and _voet_ "foot" too? But how in the
blazing did a such family name arise?
Andreas
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