Re: [very OT] "Slavic"

From: Michael Everson (everson@egt.ie)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 08:50:41 EDT

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Ar 19:39 -0800 2000-09-21, scríobh Patrick Andries:
> Välsk in Swedish is also linked to Welsch (according to Kluge's
>Etymologisches Wörterbuch), but what does it mean ?

A Swedish informant here says that "rotvälska" means 'gibberish,
incomprehensible language'.

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