And fenetre in French - Iassumed it was a latin root.
A wind eye I thought was further down and around the back.....
Andrew Fildes
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On 27/09/2010, at 6:48 PM, Johan Malmström wrote:
> I've been away for the weekend, so pardon me for bringing this up
> again, but I only want to mention that window in Swedish is "fönster",
> with roots to the German word "Fenster" so the meaning of the word is
> quite obvious. (And window might have roots to old Scandinavian, in
> translation to common English, wind eye...)
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