Re: Tudrus

At 1:02:25 PM on Monday, January 17, 2011, Torsten wrote:

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> Remember that Bastarnian = Hoch-/Mitteldeutsch

We can't remember what hasn't been demonstrated (and is on
temporal grounds absurd anyway).

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>>>And why
>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folwark ?
>>>What did Germans have to do with that?

>> You see the explanation given in the article (Vorwerk).

> Is that word used in that sense in German?

Read <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorwerk> and the entry in
DWB (Grimm).

>> And the same structure & tradition spread in Hungary
>> as well (the Hungarian notion of "tanya" is a perfect
>> rendering of medieval Vorwerk/folwark. Hungary was
>> during the medieval centuries and later on under the
>> same Slavic-German influence and customary inter-
>> changes).

> You won't get off that easy. Why is the Polish Szlachta
> using German(?) terminology?

Oh, for Pete's sake! Read some medieval Central European
history. You might as well ask why English 'unnecessarily'
adopted so may French words in the 13th and 14th centuries.

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Brian