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Subject: Re: Burtslinger
Author: Andy ;—)   (guest, 84.165.65.20)
Date: August 2, 2006 at 3:37:42 AM
Reply to: Burtslinger by Margaret
Sounds like a German place name. It may have been Bürzlingen (with a U umlaut), but this does not exist any more.
I found an entry in Grimm's Wörterbuch:

BÜRZLINGEN, adv. ano protenso

but I don't know what this means. "Protenso" (dative or ablative case) means "extending"

http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemid=GB13361

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