Hello Urban, On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 19:26:07 +0100 GMT (04/11/2003, 01:26 +0700 GMT), Urban wrote:
> That's not too far from the swedish 'fladdermus' -- fluttermouse if you > translate it directly. That's what I thought about the origin of the German word: Fledermaus = Flattermaus. But I'm not enough of a linguist to know about origins of words. -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. Every day, the hummingbird eats its own weight in food. You may wonder how it weighs the food. It doesn't. It just eats another hummingbird. Message reply created with The Bat! 2.01.7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using a Pentium P4 1.7 GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
