LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.27 (06) [E]

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From: Leslie Decker <leslie at volny.cz>
Subject: LL-L "Delectables" 2005.04.27 (03) [E]

    Kevin Caldwell wrote:



    In the famous cherry- and apple-region near Hamburg, called "Das Alte
    Land",
    people call it in their local LS: 'Myrrk", in G: 'Meerettich', in
Austria
    'Kren'..


  Interesting. The Russian word for horseradish is "khren" (????). "Khren"
  is also commonly used in Russian as a euphemism for another "kh-" word,
the
  slang term for a certain part of the male anatomy.

  Kevin Caldwell


The Austrian version could be from the Czech chren or Slovak chren. Don't
think there're any double meanings there, but I could be wrong!

Leslie Decker

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Dobrý den, Leslie!

> The Austrian version could be from the Czech chren or Slovak chren.

Don't you think the Bavarian version comes from Czech too, what with Bavaria
sharing a border with "Bohemia"?  Of course, it could have arrived by way of
Austria as well.

Na shledanou!
Reinhard/Ron

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.27 (04) [E]

Yes, Dutch has <paardekastanje> from <paard> horse and <kastanje> chestnut.
Btw, in the new spelling I guess that will be <paardeNkastanje>
Ingmar

>Heather:

>OED notes that both Latin and German have 'horse chestnut'  castanea
>equina > Rosskastanie.
>
>In any other languages too?
>Or does anyone use a word for a similar purpose?

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From: Þjóðríkr Þjóðreksson <didimasure at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.27 (04) [E]



>OED notes that both Latin and German have 'horse chestnut'  castanea

>equina
>     Rosskastanie.
>
>In any other languages too?
>Or does anyone use a word for a similar purpose?
>
>Heather

Paardekastanje (probably paardenkastanje in the brand-new version of our
tussen-n rule) in Standard Dutch.
Also often called "wilde kastanje", as opposed to the "tame" = domesticated
= eatable, version, the "tamme kastanje"

Diederik Masure

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