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From: deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: Pronouncing your name in another language
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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 04:01:36 GMT
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In article <3flmtk$qed@nyheter.chalmers.se> f6bbn@fysparc11.fy.chalmers.se (Bo Nettelblad) writes:
>In article <1995Jan19.025541.26595@midway.uchicago.edu>,
>Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:

>>I don't know the origin of the Danish word 'tysk' meaning "mute," never-
>>theless I'm confident this is merely a phonetic coincidence.  Scandanavian
>>'tysk', "German", is clearly a reflex of Germanic *theudisko-, though I
>>can't say whether it is a direct descendant of the Old Norse reflex or a
>>latter borrowing from German (almost asssuredly Low German).
>
>I am not Danish, but being a Swede, and since Danish and Swedish are 
>very similar, I can make a few comments:
>
>The word fore 'silent' in Swedish (and I think in Danish too) is 'tyst'.
>I do not know whether there exists some  other form 'tysk' in Danish, but
>I have never seen it. In Swedish, the word 'tysk' does not mean 'silent
>or 'mute'

Not knowing Danish myself, I trusted the poster when he said 'tysk'
meant "mute, quiet" in Danish.  I should have put more disclaimers 
into my response (i.e. "Should there be a Danish word 'tysk'...").

Thanks for clarifying matters.  Now I don't have to go to the 
etymological Norse dictionary to prove my point after all. ^_^
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