Re: [Cz-L] Steinbarg's Book? from Miriam Taylor on 2011-01-10 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:31:52 -0500
To: HARDY BREIER <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, jerome schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>, czernowitz-L <czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>

Hardy is right, "Biks" is a rifle. I was wrong to translate it as
powder-box.

Mimi

On 1/10/11 12:29 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> Biks in Yiddish is rifle.
> How ? Can only guess .
> In German Buchse is bushing. The rifle barrel is also a bushing.
> Anyhow Biks is rifle in Yiddish.
>
> Hardy
>
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