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===============================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: </span>LL-L "Lexicon"<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id=":9" class="ii gt">
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beste Ron,<br>
</span><blockquote><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Je schreef:<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br>
So <i>that</i> is where Russian <i>вокзал</i> (<i>vokzal</i>) and Belarusian <i>вакзал </i>(<i>vakzal</i>) for 'railway station' came from! I always wondered about it and imagined something like German <i>Wagensaal</i> ("wagon hall") ... ;-)<br>
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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 <i>vağzal</i>, Turkmen <i>wokzal</i>, Uzbek <i>vokzal</i>, Uyghur ۋوگزال <i>вогзал</i> (vogzal), Kazakh <i>вокзал</i> (<i>vokzal</i>), Kyrgyz <i>vokzal</i>.<br>
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</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.<br>
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<a href="http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voorwerk" target="_blank">http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voorwerk</a><br>
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Became “folwark” in Polish and “palivarkas” in Lithuanian, and was used
to designate a giant farm. In use since the 14th century.<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folwark" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folwark</a><br>
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Kind greetings,<br><font color="#888888">
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Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</font></span>
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