onesteptwostep Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5689 days ago 49 posts - 50 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Japanese, Korean
| Message 585 of 2529 06 August 2009 at 5:07pm | IP Logged |
한글 (hangeul) - hangul, Korean
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6619 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map
| Message 586 of 2529 06 August 2009 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
"Icumen" - in the Wessex dialect of Middle English (known from the round "Sumer Is Icumen In") - meaning something like "come in" (I don't know where the i- in icumen has come from, - maybe the word is a corruption of "in" + the participle of "to come", cfr. Faroese "innkomin").
"Sumer is icumen in,
Lhude sing cuccu!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med
And springþ þe wde nu,
Sing cuccu!
Awe bleteþ after lomb,
Lhouþ after calue cu.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ,
Murie sing cuccu!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu cuccu;
Ne swik þu nauer nu.
Pes:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu!"
I'm slowly beginning to see the point of this game...
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LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5682 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian
| Message 587 of 2529 06 August 2009 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
jagen - to hunt - German
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formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6127 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek
| Message 588 of 2529 07 August 2009 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
kaan
"snake"
Maya
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Risch Groupie United States Joined 5505 days ago 49 posts - 71 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English*
| Message 589 of 2529 07 August 2009 at 6:28am | IP Logged |
lody
ice cream
Polish
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Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5645 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese
| Message 590 of 2529 07 August 2009 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
manger - to eat, French
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Joe.Hill Newbie United States Joined 5514 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Kannada
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नाराज़ /naaraaz/ - angry, Hindi
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Ashley_Victrola Senior Member United States Joined 5622 days ago 416 posts - 429 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) Speaks: English* Studies: French, Romanian
| Message 592 of 2529 09 August 2009 at 1:24am | IP Logged |
ocho - eight (8), Spanish
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