Philip Newton wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 13:42, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> wrote:
>> _fruntimmer_,
>> meaning the same as German _Weib_
>
> Or German _Frauenzimmer_?
>
> (Though that word is only in my passive vocabulary, and I'm not
> entirely sure of the range of its denotations and connotations. My
> vague impression, though, is that it's a slightly disrespectful way of
> referring to a woman.)
Well Swedish _fruntimmer_ is more than a little
disrespectful. I didn't know the German word
was still remembered outside the Kluge!
/BP