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Date: | Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:06:57 -0500 |
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Il me surprende a apprender que "logbook" non es de grec "log". Secundo mi
Webster's
>Io ha me sovente demandate, "Proque iste 'log'?" Io pensava que forsan in
>vetule dies le diarios sur le naves habeva coperturas de ligno. Nunc, post
>le discussion herial del signification del serie ethymologic
>"leger--->logia", il me occurre le possibilitate que le anglese "log"
>poterea haber su origine in "-log-". Alteremente dicite, un libro ubi on
>accomula (gather) informationes poterea ben logicamente portar le nomine
>"logbook" (gatherbook).
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>-- frank
log n , often attrib [ME logge, prob. of Scand origin; akin to ON
l¢g fallen tree; akin to OE licgan to lie ¦ more at LIE] (14c)
1 : a usu. bulky piece or length of unshaped timber; esp : a length of
a tree trunk ready for sawing and over six feet (1.8 meters) long
2 : an apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the
water that consists of a block fastened to a line and run out
from a reel
3
a : the record of the rate of a ship's speed or of her daily
progress; also : the full nautical record of a ship's voyage
b : the full record of a flight by an aircraft
4 : a record of performance, events, or day-to-day activities <a computer É>
2. log vb logged; logging vt (1699)
1
a : to cut (trees) for lumber
b : to clear (land) of trees in lumbering ¦ often used with off
2 : to make a note or record of : enter details of or about in a log
3
a : to move (an indicated distance) or attain (an indicated speed)
as noted in a log
b
(1) : to sail a ship or fly an airplane for (an indicated distance
or period of time)
Ecce hic es sufficiente. Interessante, un parola possibile norvegian...
Stan Mulaik
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