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Just interested: why "really, DA?", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?
[Real Academia Española] wrote:Del lat. vociferāre, de vox, vocis 'voz' y ferre 'llevar'.
1. tr. Manifestar ligera y jactanciosamente algo.
2. intr. Vocear o dar grandes voces.
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:linguoboy wrote:SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Just interested: why "really, Danish", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?
Because German.
You know, I do consider you one of the more advanced linguists in this forum. But why are you giving a non-answer [*] right now?
linguoboy wrote:Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?
All three languages borrowed the term from Middle Low German vrōkost (cf. Modern Low Saxon Fröhkost), which is obviously parallel to Standard German Frühstück.
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:linguoboy wrote:Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?
Well, what I personally would do is to either postpone it, or not to reply at all maybe.
SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Middle Low German and Modern Low Saxon - now this is much more understandable to me.
linguoboy wrote:SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:linguoboy wrote:SomehowGeekyPolyglot wrote:Just interested: why "really, Danish", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?
Because German.
You know, I do consider you one of the more advanced linguists in this forum. But why are you giving a non-answer [*] right now?
Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?
All three languages borrowed the term from Middle Low German vrōkost (cf. Modern Low Saxon Fröhkost), which is obviously parallel to Standard German Frühstück. So "breakfast" is the original meaning and Danish has innovated by shifting the meaning to "lunch".
Car wrote:Norwegian ended up shifting one meaning of "middag" from lunch to dinner, so it's not just Danish that was innovative there.
linguoboy wrote:Car wrote:Norwegian ended up shifting one meaning of "middag" from lunch to dinner, so it's not just Danish that was innovative there.
It may be more accurate to say that middag always meant "dinner" and that in Norway (as in the USA), dinner (i.e. the main meal of the day) shifted from being a midday meal to being an evening one.
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