Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 63078
Date: 2009-02-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "the_black_sheep@..." <mderon@...> wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ja, het is lang geleden. Ik ben d'r een heleboel van vergeten.
> > >
> > >
> > > Torsten
> > >
> >
> > What I get is: "yeah, it's long past. I have (?some word -
> > ?"completely"?) forgotten it."
> >
> > What is "heleboel"? Can't find it in the online dictionaries.
> >
> > Andrew
> >
> heleboel: (quite) a lot, a whole lot; lots, tons, hundreds, piles
>

So he said: "Yeah, it's been awhile. I've forgotten quite a lot of it
[Dutch]." ??

Andrew