[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help with Translations

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I would bet that the Russians probably got the potato from the Germans in the 1700s.  So they simply adopted the German word.

    -Paul


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From: Krampetz <Krampetz at aol.com>
To: LINDASUSAK <LINDASUSAK at comcast.net>; trottkg <trottkg at telus.net>
Cc: ger-poland-volhynia <ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help with Translations


 

Kartoffel is German for potatoe..
Using Google translate,  the  Russian word is картофель and sounds 
similar  ...

 
 
In a message dated 04/01/13 03:47:01 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
LINDASUSAK at comcast.net writes:

Can  anyone help me with a Polish marriage record? 

----- Original Message  -----
From: "Keith Trott" <trottkg at telus.net> 
To:  ger-poland-volhynia at sggee.org 
Sent: Monday, April 1, 2013 12:24:00 PM  
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Help with Translations 

Hello,  

I have some letters that were written by relatives but have not been  able 
to 
make sense of them. The problems are multiple. The writer(s) were  fluent 
in Russian and spoke/wrote German as a second language. For  example, one 
letter has the word kartofel in it which is the Russian word  for potatoe. 
Another letter has the name Olga with the Russian lower case  g in it. Most 
words seem to be spelled phonetically so und become unt, von  becomes fon 
and 
anfang becomes anfank. I don't have any German vocabulary  and am 
struggling 
to resolve the meaning. I'd appreciate any help.  



Thanks 

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