An Unexpectedly Long Word
Feb. 18th, 2013 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI don't know if I ever learned the/any Dutch words for sink, but at least one cropped up in Rosetta today: gootsteen. _Gootsteen_? Two words? WTF?
Goot = gutter
Steen = stone
Dutch wikipedia thinks spoelbak is a better work. _Spoelbak_?!? A springbox. Which sort of makes sense, if you think of a faucet as sort of an artificial spring (the water kind).
Weird, tho, for something that is so monosyllabic in English to be a composed word in Dutch.
Goot = gutter
Steen = stone
Dutch wikipedia thinks spoelbak is a better work. _Spoelbak_?!? A springbox. Which sort of makes sense, if you think of a faucet as sort of an artificial spring (the water kind).
Weird, tho, for something that is so monosyllabic in English to be a composed word in Dutch.