MDMD(2): Notes and Questions

[dennis grace]

In response to my
>>>     65.4  `Austra' Auster = South Wind in Latin. Austra might be a female
>>>     variant but would probably mean `of the south' or `southern'.
>>
>>Yah.  Pretty blatant.  Vroom means "faith."  Austra is the south.  And look
>>what the Dutch faith is doing to the south.

Paul quibbles:
>If I remember correctly, a Dutch-speaker on the list recently stated that
>Vroom (like German fromm) means 'pious'.

Yeah.  Prolly.  My German, Dutch, and Old English all pretty much suck.
Hated studying all three (made my throat hurt).  The allegorical reading
still works, though.  Works better, in fact.  Just substitute "pious Dutch"
for "Dutch faith."

Ciao.
dgg
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