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From: "Kelly Petit" <>
Subject: [GEN-NORDIC] Re: Translation--Sagbrugsarbeider
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:16:56 +0200
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"Bubbles" <> a crit dans le message news:
9q2s39$ku346$1@ID-93412.news.dfncis.de...
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> "Jan Kjellander" <> wrote in message
> news:7PTw7.4347$...
> > Hi,
> > Sagbrugsarbeider means saw mill worker and Stort kveg means big heifer.
>
> Saw mill worker for sure.
>
> Stor is definitly "large". Kveg - is it cow? or is it heifer? or maybe even
> bull? not bull, I think?
>
> Just questioning - that way, I learn more :-)
>
> Marianne
>
If you ask an American about 'sagbrukarbeider', he'll probably say a 'lumberjack'.
Kveg er det samme som storfe, strre husdyr, ofte kyr, hence 'cattle' in English.
A heifer in English is a 'kvige' in Norwegian, that's to say a young cow-:)
Kelly - brought up in the country


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