Philip Newton wrote:
>
>On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 18:41, ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> > Generally I'm woefully iggurunt about Germanic vowel correspondences,
>but
> > thanks to Dutch I've figured out (or at least noticed) a few:
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Very interesting info. Thanks.
>
> > Straum :: stroom :: stream
>
>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 :-)))
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