Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

From: tgpedersen
Message: 63042
Date: 2009-02-16

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:
>
> At 6:53:45 PM on Sunday, February 15, 2009, Andrew Jarrette
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > But how did you know there was a Scottish connection?
>
> I don't know where Torsten got it, but Mirren mentions it in
> her MySpace profile.
>
> > Where did you get that from? Just from Joan's accent?
> > Also, what does "niks aan te doen" mean?
>
> I believe that it's 'it can't be helped', cf. English
> 'there's nothing to be done about it'.

'What can you do?'.


Torsten