[Sca-cooks] Meaning of weitergart (Mod. Germ.)

[Volker Bach]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net> schrieb am So, 15.8.2010:

> Von: Terry Decker <t.d.decker at att.net>
> Betreff: Re: [Sca-cooks] Meaning of weitergart (Mod. Germ.)
> An: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Datum: Sonntag, 15. August, 2010 01:08 Uhr
> > German is wonderful - you can
> have a verb from almost any adjective. This one is indeed
> 'garen' (no umlaut), and it does mean the cooking process.
> > 
> > Cheers
> > 
> > Giano
> 
> And, of course, this is one of those verbs that does not
> appear in my dictionaries.  Thanks.

It's derived from an adjective AND compounded - about the highest level of nasty there is. If it's in a dictionary, it will be under 'garen', and even that is unlikely. 

Sometimes I think we just do this to confuse foreigners.

Giano