Re[2]: [tied] Frisians & Jutes

From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 61349
Date: 2008-11-04

At 8:21:14 PM on Monday, November 3, 2008, Andrew Jarrette
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

[...]

>> BTW, in case you still want to maintain the especially
>> close relationship between Frisian and English, here is a
>> Frisian gloss:

>> feefokker "rancher"

> Literally "cattle-breeder" (the English profanity
> apparently meant simply "to breed")

I don't know of any evidence that it ever had that meaning
in English.

Brian