meregrund, m.n: the bottom of a sea, lake or mere. (“meh-reh-groond”)
Alexander the Great explores the sea in a submarine: BL Royal MS 15 E vi, c. 1445.
meregrund, m.n: the bottom of a sea, lake or mere. (“meh-reh-groond”)
Alexander the Great explores the sea in a submarine: BL Royal MS 15 E vi, c. 1445.
Funny thing is that ‘sea’ in German is ‘Meer’ and a ‘lake’ is in Dutch a ‘meer’ but in German it’s ‘See’.
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I wonder how that happened!
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They’re probably what is called ‘false friends’, errors in translation, shifting of meanings, etc.
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