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  1. njlarsen

    Etymology of some Auks

    That is how I read it too. It would possibly be informative to do genealogy on that family to figure out who the original German person was who brought the name to Greenland. Or maybe this is even a completely wrong hypothesis and has nothing to do with the person that was the "friend". Niels
  2. njlarsen

    Etymology of some Auks

    Re Motzfeld: There is still a family in Greenland named something similar, for example this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Motzfeldt I did not see an easy link to who Lake Motzfeld/Lake Motzfeldt was named for. Niels
  3. njlarsen

    Etymology of some Auks

    The "og" might mean that the translation should be: "Aalge, which is also found in Iceland, and has that name"
  4. njlarsen

    Etymology of some Auks

    Those are a real pain when a Dane talks with a Swede. In Danish they would be (in order of increasing size): enkeltbekkasin, dobbeltbekkasin, tredaekker. Therefore two names are the same but both refer to a different species across the gap between these otherwise very similar languages. And...
  5. njlarsen

    Etymology of some Auks

    I don't know what they would have used for pronunciation that long ago. Today, aa would as you know be å (one of those letters that the English speakers would not know what to do with - but something like "oh" with tiny a sound to it). Niels
  6. njlarsen

    Etymology of some Auks

    Sorry, but being Danish (except for not currently living there, of course), I do not recognize this word? Niels
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