= Сообщение: 8261 из 12490 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : David Rance 2:203/2 13 Feb 19 15:51:34 Кому : Björn Felten 13 Feb 19 15:51:34 Тема : Grandfather FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5c642ef2 На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+5c640d0a = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP437 ================================== ============================================================================== On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 13:26:56 Björn Felten -> Michiel van der Vlist wrote:
MvdV>> "Oom" and "tante" are brothers and sisters of one's parents. Again no MvdV>> distinction betweem siblings of the father or mother.
BF> In Swedish we continue with the logic here. As you may have guessed, BF> far is short for fader and mor is short for moder. And then bror is BF> short for broder while syster has no real short form. All the words BF> donated to the English language by the Vikings. 8-)
Thanks! :-)
Incidentally, we have father/uncle grandfather/great uncle great-grandfather/ ? uncle
The last one no-one is quite clear about.
David
-- Formerly ICHTHUS (Reading) UK (1987-2007 R.I.P.) (2:292/854.110)
