English is stolen?!!
I say James old chap, this is going a bit strong. We would rather believe the
Vikings, Romans and Normans forced ( foisted?) them upon us.
The English language is continually being diluted with words and phrases from all over
the world, thanks to the continual invasion of TV!!
<BG>
Best Wishes
Ron (UK)
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Subject: Re: Languages and strings
Dear Arto and All:
Could this also be the source of the Gaelic word "ceilidh," meaning music
party?
I would be surprised if there weren't at least a few Finnish words in the
English language. English seems to have stolen words from everybody else.
Yours,
Jim
Arto Wikla
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wikla
Dear Jon,
you wrote:
> I assume, Arto, that when you refer to the difference between Italian and
> Spanish in the context of language, that you mean a difference among the
Just that a Finnish speaker and an Estonian speaker understand each other
as much as an Italian speaker and a Spanish speaker. Actually I suppose
Finnish and Estonian are a bit more different than Italian and Spanish.
> But I do think there is no Finno-Urgic in English,
It might be wrong, but I have heard that the word "boy" would come from
Swedish/Scandinavish word "pojke", which would come from the Finnish
word "poika". They all have the same meaning.
> and no one has answered me on the Basque. Is that of that Finno family?
> Or is it another separate language.
Basque is certainly not Fenno-Ugrian language!! I guess some Indo-Europeans
just have heard something they do not understand at all, and they thought
those languages must have something in common: their
"un-understability"...;-)
All this is quit off from lutes. So here is something to come back:
In Finnish the word language, tongue, and STRING are all "kieli"!
So a "lute string" is "luutun kieli", "English language" is
"englannin kieli", and "cat's tongue" is "kissan kieli".
"String instrument" is "kielisoitin", etc.
Arto
