Not sure what you are asking, but I've not heard "dumm" used to refer to "mute". In my experience "shtumm" was always used to refer to mute. Being so similar, it is possible "shtumm" may have been slanged down to "dumm" for that usage.Soloist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:12 amWife: may be a “dumb” question, but would German/Pennsylvania Dutch be similar to English, in having more than one meaning for the word dumb? I guess I always assumed that English just re-allocated a word used for mute people, but I suppose it might be the other way around, since the German also uses that for people lacking in common sense.Grace wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 1:44 pmIt could mean "stupid". But in PA Dutch, "so dumm" is "so dumb"
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/g ... -dumb.html
"Traditional Pennsylvania Dutch" Foods?
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I think the word for someone who is mute, would be "shtumm". But don't hold me to that. The Pa. Dutch I hear today has been infiltrated with English.Soloist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:12 amWife: may be a “dumb” question, but would German/Pennsylvania Dutch be similar to English, in having more than one meaning for the word dumb? I guess I always assumed that English just re-allocated a word used for mute people, but I suppose it might be the other way around, since the German also uses that for people lacking in common sense.Grace wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 1:44 pmIt could mean "stupid". But in PA Dutch, "so dumm" is "so dumb"
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/g ... -dumb.html
We are in the midst of strawberry season here. Almost all Dutch speaking people here, use the word "strawberry". But the word for strawberries in Dutch would be "Ahwbeere" which is close to the German word for them, "Erdbeere".
Note :I see Silentreader addressed the meaning of "Mute"
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“Dumb” has had both meanings in English for a very long time (despite certain fundamentalist homeschoolers who would teach it’s wrong to use words like “dumb” to mean “stupid” or “kids” to mean “children”).Soloist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:12 amWife: may be a “dumb” question, but would German/Pennsylvania Dutch be similar to English, in having more than one meaning for the word dumb? I guess I always assumed that English just re-allocated a word used for mute people, but I suppose it might be the other way around, since the German also uses that for people lacking in common sense.Grace wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 1:44 pmIt could mean "stupid". But in PA Dutch, "so dumm" is "so dumb"
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/g ... -dumb.html
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The Deitsch word is erdbeere. The Dutch word is aardbei.Grace wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 12:04 pmI think the word for someone who is mute, would be "shtumm". But don't hold me to that. The Pa. Dutch I hear today has been infiltrated with English.Soloist wrote: ↑Thu Jun 06, 2024 11:12 amWife: may be a “dumb” question, but would German/Pennsylvania Dutch be similar to English, in having more than one meaning for the word dumb? I guess I always assumed that English just re-allocated a word used for mute people, but I suppose it might be the other way around, since the German also uses that for people lacking in common sense.Grace wrote: ↑Wed Jun 05, 2024 1:44 pm
It could mean "stupid". But in PA Dutch, "so dumm" is "so dumb"
https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/g ... -dumb.html
We are in the midst of strawberry season here. Almost all Dutch speaking people here, use the word "strawberry". But the word for strawberries in Dutch would be "Ahwbeere" which is close to the German word for them, "Erdbeere".
Note :I see Silentreader addressed the meaning of "Mute"
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Pierogies, yes or no?
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More traditional among Ukrainian / Russian / Prussian Mennos than among the Pa. Dutch, I think.
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After I posted this, I did look some stuff up. It is Polish by origin. But like the afore mentioned taco salad, names can be misleading.ohio jones wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 2:19 pmMore traditional among Ukrainian / Russian / Prussian Mennos than among the Pa. Dutch, I think.
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My wife made sauerkraut with brown sugar last night. I am told that is also PA Dutch. Is that true?
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I never heard of that, either.
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