Re: Re[2]: [tied] Frisians & Jutes

--- On Mon, 11/3/08, Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...> wrote:

> From: Brian M. Scott <BMScott@...>
> Subject: Re[2]: [tied] Frisians & Jutes
> To: "Andrew Jarrette" <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Date: Monday, November 3, 2008, 9:57 PM
> 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

In any case, I saw Gladiator and at the beginning, in the Vienna woods, one of the barbarians shouted "Ich ficke deine schwester".