LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.17 (06) [EN]

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From: Jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2009.11.17 (04) [EN]

 Mensch, Marcus,

in my first posting whithin this thread I had made some thoughts to put
up any continuative comments of the same kind:

>>(But, independant from the linguistic stuff, I wonder what's the reason
that the Germanic people only mowed once? I don't >>know of any major
improvements in agriculture back then that could have improved the grass
growth that much.
>>And to come back to Jonny speaking about it as a moribund word: It's one
of the examples where not language decline is >>the cause for a word
disappearing, but where the word just became unfit to represent reality
anymore. There's no use for >>a word meaning "second and last time of
mowing" if agriculture has improved thus far that modern farmers can mow
five >>times a year.)

But I had been too lazy and feared to disturb people, because LS "Etgrao" in
its original sense is independent from the number of cuts/mowings - it's
just the "re-growing"; it hasn't to be mown but the cattle can eat it by
their own mouthes.

Today it's called the "1st., 2nd. 3d. ... cut".

Landmenschen unter sich, wat?

Thanks anyway!

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm
Lower Saxony, Germany

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