springel -> RE: where i can find hapiness (8/2/2021 12:55:11 PM)
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ORIGINAL: sveint quote:
ORIGINAL: Orm Maybe you can find happiness in Hell? [image]local://upfiles/29130/18DFE89ABFBC4B718B0AE23D45C205FF.jpg[/image] Highway to Hell. Oi det var gammelt men artig bilde. I used to live near Hell. Sadly the correct translation would be "slope". Ha, Dutch has the word helling for that. What language is this Hell? There is also the ancient word Hellweg for trade roads in the Germanic world (weg is road), but that hell goes back to Old-Germanic *heldiz (battle, fight), that developed into something analogous to 'the beaten path'. Germanic *hel is also related to Greek *kel (drive), which we know from Latin celer (speed, accelerate). There is much more to words than just random surprise for monolinguals who stumble upon another language.
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