Re: [tied] substratum ( it was Re: Creole Romance?)

At 3:15:20 PM on Tuesday, June 24, 2003, altamix wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"
> <BMScott@...> wrote:

>> <Ber> is the nominative case; <baron> is the oblique
>> case. The word is of Germanic origin.

> this is the translation I have too:
> "how big you was, baron".

Translation of what? <Tant mare fustes, ber!> is freely
translated 'How unhappy an end for you, hero', 'in such an
evil hour you died, hero', or the like. No 'big' there at
all.

Brian