LL-L: "Nautical terms" LOWLANDS-L, 18.OCT.1999 (04) [E]

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From: john feather [johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk]
Subject: Nautical terms

Jorge wrote:

>>Interestingly, many nautical terms derive from Lowlands speech. I am
quoting a few, hoping someone
will provide a glossary of Lowlands nautical terms, regardless of their
impact
on other languages. It also seems there is a commonality of roots between
Lowlanders, English and Scandinavians, together the greatest sailors of the
world, because of their geography and frequent, terrible storms.<<

An apparently convenient source of nautical terms in various languages is
the series of Oxford-Duden Pictorial Dictionaries. Unfortunately they are
not very accurate and verbs as such don't normally appear. I wrote to the
OUP 20 years ago pointing out various errors but they still persist. In my
1980 edition of the German/English volume there is an illustration of a boat
heading into the wind with its sails shivering, captioned "das Boot ohne
Fahrt". I would take this to mean "boat in stays", but the dictionary has
"yacht tacking". In the next diagram the boat is "luffing", though I think
most people would say "reaching". I mention these details because I recall
"tacking" or "going about" and "stays" coming up in a recent Lowlands
discussion.

We mustn't forget "armada" and "galleon" which we get directly from Spanish,
nor the terrible storms of the Bay of Biscay.

John Feather
johnfeather at sceptic1.freeserve.co.uk

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