The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
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The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de
Busbecq, Ogier Ghislain de, 1522-1592
Broe Bread Brood
Plut Blood Bloed
Stul Stool Stoel
Hus House Huys
Wingart Vine Wijngaert
Reghen Rain Regen
Bruder Brother Broeder
Schwester Sister Zuster
Alt Old Oud
Wintch Wind Wind
Silvir Silver Zilver
Goltz Gold Goud
Kor Corn Koren
Salt Salt Zout
Fisct Fish Visch
Hoef Head Hoofd
Thurn Door Deure
Stern Star Star
Sune Sun Zon
Mine Moon Maen
Tag Day Dag
Oeghene Eyes Oogen
Bars Beard Baert
Handa Hand Hand
Boga Bow Bogen
Miera Ant Mier
Rinck or Ringo Ring Ring
Brunna Spring Bron
Waghen Waggon Wagen
Apel Apple Appel
Schieten To shoot Schieten
Schlipen To sleep Slapen
Kommen To come Komen
Singhen To sing Zingen
Lachen To laugh Lachen
Criten To cry Kryten
Geen To go Gaen
Breen To roast Braên
Schwalch Death
Knauen Tag meant good day. Knauen signified good, and he used many
other words which did not agree with our tongue, for example:
Iel, life or health │ Stap, a goat
Ieltsch, alive or well │ Gadeltha, beautiful
Iel uburt, be it well │ Atochta, bad
Marzus, marriage │ Wichtgata, white
Schuos, a bride │ Mycha, a sword
Baar, a boy │ Lista, too little
Ael, a stone │ Schedit, light
Menus, flesh │ Borrotsch, a wish
Rintsch, a mountain │ Cadariou, a soldier
Fers, a man │ Kilemschkop, drink up your cup
Statz, the earth │ Tzo warthata, thou didst
Ada, an egg │ Ies varthata, he did
Ano, a hen │ Ich malthata, I say
Telich, foolish │
Being told to count he did so thus: _Ita_, _tua_, _tria_, _fyder_,
_fyuf_, _seis_, _sevene_, precisely as we Flemings do. For you men of
Brabant, who pretend you talk German, are, on this point, in the habit
of lauding yourselves to the skies, and ridiculing us on account of
what you are pleased to call our abominable pronunciation of that word,
which you pronounce _seven_. He went on thus: _athe_, _nyne_, _thiine_,
_thiinita_, _thunetua_, _thunetria_. Twenty he called _stega_, thirty
_treithyen_, forty _furderthien_, a hundred _sada_, a thousand
_hazer_. He also repeated a song in that language, which began as
follows,
Wara, wara ingdolou;
Scu te gira Galizu
Hæmisclep dorbiza ea.
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