>>"Hauen" in Germany means to cut trees (among other things, it also means to hit, as in punish). Is there no similar word in Dutch?
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>houwen = to chop beeldhouwen = to carve
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>>And what is the Dutch word for tree? I thought it was "Boom". In German it is "Baum". But perhaps "Boom" in this case may also be older German, or some dialect.
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>boom = tree
OK, thanks.
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