Totally OT about loaned words (was: More OT about Holland (but shorter this time))

[Michael Schartau]

----- Original Message -----
From: Sigvald Grøsfjeld jr. <sigvald4 at yahoo.no>
To: <Jussi.Mantere at iki.fi>

> In Norwegian we say "badstue".
>
> Best regards from
> Sigvald :-)
>

Meaning "Small house or room for bathing". In Swedish "Bastu", short of
"Badsuga" meaning the same as in Norse.

We can go on like this for yeras. All thouse words borrowed from one
language to an other.

I don't understand a word of Dutch but find it possibly to read a Dutch
newspaper. Most words are related to German, English, French or even Swedish
(Wallon words) and (I think) I understand it.

/Michael