nikolai79 - Aug 9, 2005 9:31 pm - Voted 10/10
One questionWhat exactly mean the word "sas"? Peak? Peak with any special shape? Is it tipical from any region in particular? It sounds nice!
Gangolf Haub - Aug 10, 2005 2:42 am - Hasn't voted
Re: One questionWell it's Ladinian, the language spoken in the heart of the Dolomites. In Italian it would be Sasso, like Sasso delle Dodici instead of Sas de la Dodesc. On the other hand nobody really knows how to spell it correctly - you'll find Sas, Sass and Sasso on one map.
Have to find out what Sasso means in Italian - the German word would be Kofel but I'm not sure I really know what it means since it is applied to mountains of every shape.
nikolai79 - Aug 10, 2005 2:04 pm - Voted 10/10
Re: One questionThanks a lot, really interesting! In North Spain, arround the area I am from there are several words that means "peak": pico, peña, torre, cueto, monte, morra, tabla... and maybe I´m forgetting some of then.
Variety it´s good, thanks again.
Vid Pogachnik - Aug 11, 2005 7:58 am - Hasn't voted
Re: One questionI'm not sure, it's just my 'gut feeling', but looks most probable to me that sasso would mean a 'stone, rock'. Hm, I don't hnow...
Gabriele Roth - Aug 11, 2005 8:10 am - Hasn't voted
Re: One questionsas is a dialectal form of sasso that means stone, in Ladin countries you can find a lot of mountains named Sas or Sasso the most famous is Sassolungo (Langkopfel)
Gangolf Haub - Aug 11, 2005 8:33 am - Hasn't voted
Re: One questionThe answer is so obvious I feel a little ashamed that I didn't think of it. Btw: it's Langkofel - which was the Kofel I had in mind when trying to translate Sasso to German.
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