Re: Help with German

Hi!

caeruleancentaur writes:
> In working with Pokorny's "Indogermanisches Wörterbuch" I have come
> across some German words the meanings of which I don't know.  I can't
> find them in my German dictionary.  I can break them into parts, but
> the compounds don't make any sense to me.  Would any of our German
> members tell me what these words mean currently?
>
> Leuchtpflanze
glowing plant
(Maybe there's a special term for this?)

> Fruchertrag
probably 'Fruchtertrag':

proceeds of fruit

> Wassersiedler
water settler

> Eiröden
???

Maybe 'einöden'?  That's not a verb you'd find in a lexicon, but if
I were forced to tell what it means, it would be:

  to make a solitude, to make desolate

I.e., the causative of 'veröden', 'to become a solitude'; from
'öd(e)', 'bleak, desolate, barren'.

But this is quite far-fetched!

**Henrik

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