| From: | daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 18, 2002, 10:19 |
Roger Mills wrote:> >> fokken 'to breed (animals)',> > Origin unknown to me> Too bad. In view of our well known Engl. word, it's probably > some good old Germanic word.There's a Swedish word _fock_ meaning 'fore-sail, jib'. It is said to originally have meant 'wedge'. And I can see how 'wedge' have come to mean 'fuck' and then 'fokken'. :) ||| daniel -- danielandreasson @ swipnet.se | http://home.swipnet.se/escape
| Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> | |
| Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...> |