From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Boats (was: Slashes)
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:21:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160711112123.GC7815@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160711103855.LRSRPiZyf%steffen@sdaoden.eu>
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Steffen Nurpmeso scripsit:
> |Well, in Scandinavian the port side is called "babord", which comes from
> |bare board, since that was the "clean" side, which you could dock on.
>
> For that the German word is "Backbord" -- and wether that is clean
> depends: it seems to originate in "bak", related to "Backe",
Quite so, from Low German backbort or Dutch bakboord (seafaring terms
in Standard German mostly come from Low German). The OE form is
bæcbord and the ON form is bakborði. All of these words have have
everything to do with back and nothing to do with bare. Whether they
refer to the helmsman's back or the back of the ship itself (that is,
the side away from the water when docked) is not clear. The French word,
obviously borrowed from Norse (probably by way of Normand) is bâbord.
As I mentioned before, this was replaced by laddebord in Middle English.
By the way, I misspelled stéorbord in my previous post by leaving
off the accent.
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2016-07-11 9:34 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-07-11 10:38 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2016-07-11 11:21 ` John Cowan [this message]
2016-07-11 11:07 ` John Cowan
2016-07-11 15:13 ` [TUHS] Boats Johnny Billquist
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2016-07-10 12:04 ` [TUHS] Boats (was: Slashes) Johnny Billquist
2016-07-10 19:22 ` John Cowan
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