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Thread #36713 Message #3461514
Posted By: GUEST,ripov
04-Jan-13 - 08:59 PM
Thread Name: Folklore/language: Of snickets and ginnels
Subject: RE: Of snickets and ginnels
As does "gate", from Norse "gata", (and I imagine related to German "gehen", to go) which only later acquired the meaning of the thing that closed the (passage)way