An Academic Blog Duo
Sloe to the finish line… Caveat lector—the spelling in the blog title belies a non-native German speaker’s meager approximation of two terms encountered in travels through Carinthia (Austria). Lo, in the Jauntal did I find two fruits referred to with these terms, both of which referenced dark-skinned (reddish-purple and bluish-purple), fairly small stone fruits. To […]
Food offers a bountiful table from which to dine when it comes to linguistics and etymology. A name that has long puzzled me is Tamerl, one which I’ve only encounted while dining at the Most & Weinschenke Tamerl in Griffen, and this is a seldom, but cherished, occurrence. My first, and clearly wrong, thought was […]
Here’s where I keep a list of words to harvest later. If you have any dialect word suggestions, please leave a comment! herummurksen
K-a-j-o-n. This word does not look German to me. It has a flair that hints at an origin not in the Germanic family. How did it end up in the language? What’s it doing? A windy path will lead us to an answer connected to human anatomy. Walk with me! My first encounter (as best […]