Re: [very OT] "Slavic"

From: Michael Everson ([email protected])
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 08:50:41 EDT

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Ar 19:39 -0800 2000-09-21, scr�obh Patrick Andries:
> V�lsk in Swedish is also linked to Welsch (according to Kluge's
>Etymologisches W�rterbuch), but what does it mean ?

A Swedish informant here says that "rotv�lska" means 'gibberish,
incomprehensible language'.

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