Boris,
What's the root of the word in Russian?
"Råd" means council in Norwegian.
OTOH, it gives a nice spin to the animal's latin name "Rattus
norwegicus". :-)
Jostein
----- Original Message -----
From: "Boris Liberman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: PESO: City Hall where I work
Hi!
Markus
Rådhus means City Hall. So you are quite right, it is rathouse. The
house where the rats work ;-)
Just for the record, it is Towns Hall.
In Russian we have a word "Ratusha" which means the same... Wonder
if this is yet another word we borrowed from the Vikings :-)...
Boris
