Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/17

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Subject: [Leica] Synecdoche
From: nathan.wajsman at planet.nl (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu Mar 17 13:09:31 2005
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In Danish it is "gade".

Daniel Ridings wrote:


> For what it's worth: "gate" means "street", which is why there are so 
> many "gates" around without a gate. Loan word from Scandinavian 
> languages. The street names probably go back a while. "gate" still means 
> street in Norwegian "gata" in Swedish and probably "gate" in Danish (I 
> don't know Danish).
> 
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