XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:01:05 -0400, Oliver Cromm   
    wrote in   
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   alt.usage.english,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > "Bein" means "leg" in modern standard German, but the   
   > older meaning "bone" lives on in many compound words.   
      
   Like Middle High German, Old Icelandic had a word    
   'bone; leg', but the modern language has gone the other way   
   from German, and  is 'bone'.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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