From: Kenneţur Krístjánsson (kenneth@gnu.org)
Date: Sun Sep 22 2002 - 08:54:04 EDT
Kćri vinur,
In iceland people are grown up with using their own words. Because of
this, it feels very natural to develop new words when needed. Often it
is just a matter of using the grammar or reusing some words. For
instance wife "kone" is just a part of the grammar for women.
For information on Icelandic and the tradition:
http://bella.mrn.stjr.is/utgafur/enska.pdf (English)
http://bella.mrn.stjr.is/utgafur/franska.pdf (French)
http://bella.mrn.stjr.is/utgafur/tyska.pdf (German)
http://bella.mrn.stjr.is/utgafur/islenska.pdf (Icelandic)
http://bella.mrn.stjr.is/utgafur/danska.pdf (Danish)
If you are interested in seeing what english words are called in
Icelandic, then this is a good link:
http://www.ismal.hi.is/ob/index.en.html (Orđbanki íslenskrar málstöđvar)
In Iceland people happily use their own words. - luckely for us that Old
Norse still is alive and kicking, and not dead like for instance Latin.
Bless bless.
> Finnish and Icelandic also do this but I'm not sure
> how they police it or if the people just happily use
> the official native words anyway.
>
> Andrew.
-- Kenneţur Kristjánsson <kenneth@gnu.org>
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