Yes, it indeed does. And there is a whiole pile of dialect words for
parts of buildings - farmsteads in particular - that in the northern
uplands (and some lowlands) have Germanic and Scandinavian origins.
J
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Subject: Re: Outgang
I guess it has to do with 'utgang' in Old English and the modern German
'Ausgang', which means 'exit'.
Birte
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