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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span name="M.-L. Lessing" class="" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">M.-L. Lessing</span><span style="white-space:nowrap"> </span><span class="" style="white-space:nowrap"><span><</span><a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a><span>></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>

Subject: </span><span style="white-space:nowrap">LL-L "Etymology" 2014.05.22 (01) [EN-NL]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>

<div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:13.600000381469727px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Dear Roland, this is really interesting! The 19th-century beard fashion is called "Backenbart" in German, and this is *High German* too!! A foreign loanword for it was "Favoris" (must be "fabreezn"??). The beacons by the sea are called "Bake" (</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bake_%28Seezeichen%29" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bake_%28Seezeichen%29</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">) in German. Big fires by the sea are called "Biikebrennen" (</span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biike" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biike</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">) in Frisian, "Biike" being the fire (beacon). Now whether all these words are related is beyond me, I fear we may be getting on a wrong track here. Surely the experts can enlighten us?</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">

<br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">Hartlich!</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.800000190734863px">

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