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mostrich wrote:Wow, that looks tasty! And so much worth the money on a plane with a Wintergarten.

Thanks Torben!

- Kari

speedgraflex wrote:Beautiful choices, Kari. I was trying to decipher Grundask by spitting one word into two—grund which is Old Norse and German, and ask which is found in a variety of tongues, including Swedish. Would you be able to shed light upon the origins of this name? I have a certain poetic bent and think that this may be an analogy for modeling itself from your perspective, that of being in the stillness of the forest, surrounded by other like minded trees....

Thanks Bruce!

You are absolutely right, Grundask indeed sounds like a name taken directly from the old Norwegian, Norse mythodology! I would almost want to keep it so, as something mysterious. But Grundask is, at least in my "artistname" pure Swedish.. Grund means the dangerous rocks ships may hit... and Ask, yes, it's the Ash tree..

Now probably most of the readers would wonder, who would ever combine this two words ? Rocks under the water and an Ash tree ??

There is a logic.. That is my name, directly translated from Finnish to Swedish... In English it could be Rocksash..

Finnish language is pretty simple (except the hugely complicated grammar). We re-use words, meaning one thing in one sentence, something else in another.. even if it is written precisely and exactly in the same way. Therefore my first name Kari is, besides a pretty normal Finnish male name, it also means rocks. Saarni again, my last name just means one thing, the Ash tree.

Below a classic example of a Finnish word/sentence "kuusi palaa"..



- Kari

Now that is interesting!
Thanks, Rocky errr Kari.

IIRC, isn’t Hungarian the closest related language to Finnish? The two groups came west and the Finns went north while Magyars went south.

Stikpusher wrote:IIRC, isn’t Hungarian the closest related language to Finnish? The two groups came west and the Finns went north while Magyars went south.

As a matter of fact, Estonian langauge is the closest, it differs from Finnish but there are still a number of words that are common. It sounds same. Hungarian belongs to the same language family, this has at least until recent studies been the case. However, I don't think there is one single word that Finnish and Hungarian share! From distant the languages sound similar, until you start to listen more carefully and realize that they are two totally different languages.

This is quite good "map", showing how European languages are connected to each other.



- Kari

speedgraflex wrote:Allt ágætt, þakka

- Kari

My buddy Casey and I studied Old Norse for awhile. That was illuminating! Then Casey went on to Swedish—not entirely smoothly but at least with an interesting foundation. Cheers, my friend.