SC - steaks
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Wed Nov 10 08:56:01 PST 1999
At 8:53 AM +0000 11/10/99, Nanna Rögnvaldardóttir wrote:
>You see, "steik" in Icelandic and Old Norse (English borrowed the
>word from ON) can mean either roast or slice of meat; the original meaning
>of the verb "steikja" is "to roast on a spit".
Does this mean that the English words "steak" and "stake" ultimately
come from the same ON source?
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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