Re: Fluency Wish-List
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 17, 2000, 17:45 |
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At 19:05 17.4.2000 +0200, Irina Rempt wrote:
>Valdyan might do
>something similar - a person, after all, has _ibar_ "two feet" (no
>"leg" just yet)
There are languages which don't make a difference between legs and feet --
they have one word covering everything from the hip to the toe. Curiously
Berlin dialect was like this when my mother was a child: there was a word
_beene_, which was used for both of standard German _beine_ and _füße_.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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