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From: "G. David Thayer" <>
Subject: Re: SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #193
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 10:35:19 -0700


At 23:11 7/2/99 -0400, Johnny B <> wrote:
>
> Re Msg 1 by R. G. Tiedemann: I cannot find in either Cassel's or
> Webster's German to English dictionaries the word "ungesuehnter".
> What does it mean?
>

The Langensheidt German-English dictionary lists:

ungesühnt adj. unpunished, unavenged.

It appears to be derived from the past participle of the verb

sühnen, v/t. expiate, atone for

This is a better-than-average German-English dictionary. The German to
English section alone is over 750 pages. There are few words that one
cannot find in it (and most of those are Plattdeutsch [low German]).

It costs $32.95 from Borders (less 10%).

Note that many persons will write. e.g., "ue" instead of making an
umlaut-u "ü" even though RootsWeb now supports these special characters.

G. David Thayer
Salem, OR USA

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