Re: Today's word: "brush"
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 21, 2004, 18:23 |
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At 03:39 5/21/2004, John Cowan wrote:
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>> Fair enough, both are _borste_ in Swedish.
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>Not surprising, as "broom" is the native word (and also the name of the
>plant) and "brush" is a borrowing.
Except that _borste_ is a Low German loan word.
The native word now used only for a particular
kind of broom is _kvast_.
/BP 8^)
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