LL-L "Lexicon" 2010.02.02 (01) [EN]

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon"

 Beste Ron,

Je schreef:

So *that* is where Russian *вокзал* (*vokzal*) and Belarusian *вакзал *(*
vakzal*) for 'railway station' came from! I always wondered about it and
imagined something like German *Wagensaal* ("wagon hall") ... ;-)

Interestingly, this word is where most languages of Russia, Siberia and
Central Asia (including Xinjiang in China) got their words for the same,
e.g. Azeri *vağzal*, Turkmen *wokzal*, Uzbek *vokzal*, Uyghur ۋوگزال *вогзал
* (vogzal), Kazakh *вокзал* (*vokzal*), Kyrgyz *vokzal*.

Another Lowlands (Saxon?) term that made it into Slavic (and Baltic):
Vorwerk (G), voorwerk (D), sort of a dependency of another farm, but with
relative autonomy.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voorwerk

Became “folwark” in Polish and “palivarkas” in Lithuanian, and was used to
designate a giant farm. In use since the 14th century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folwark

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium

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