Re: Scots.
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, July 19, 2008, 21:43 |
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:55:19 -0400, ROGER MILLS wrote:
>Philip Newton wrote:
...
>>Never heard of "Straum" in German. There is "Strom", though, which
>>refers to a large river or to a current (water or electricity - it is,
>>in fact, the common word for electricity).
>
>Must have been my imagination. The power of analogy :-)))
:) You appearently have an imagination very sensitive to historical
linguistics. According to the Grimm brother's Deutsches Wörterbuch, "Strom"
is a dialectal form that made its way into the standard, while the expected
form would be "Straum":
http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/cdrom/wbgui?lemid=GS50970
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grüess
mach
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