Winterly Neckar river -'s by nemox1

Mannheim - Germany, Baden-Württemberg a barge on its way upstream.

Uploaded: Jan, 16 2010 | Taken: Jan, 11 2010| Viewed: 22 times  | 5 votes Camera:  Canon EOS 450D | Exposure 1/100s, f6.3, ISO 200 | FLength: 24mm | SW: Picasa 3.0

jacko1 - Jan, 16 2010 05:01pm A very well taken shot Nicholas, can you explain to me the word Hibernal please?, Tony (jacko1) nemox1 - Jan, 16 2010 05:01pm Tony, is this better now? horourke - Jan, 16 2010 07:01pm I can explain hibernal = wintery from the Latin root which includes things like hibernation for the winter sleep of certain animals etc. The so and so Romans when they reached Britain named my beloved native land Hibernia. Just imagine what a boon to one of our major money spinners; tourism, that would have been jacko1 - Jan, 16 2010 09:01pm Thank you both, I knew the sense of the word but it does not appear in the OED even as a derivation, very strange! horourke - Jan, 17 2010 07:01am Well indeed it is very interesting as the word crops up in the context of solstices, some epic fiction and in some bone science pursuits. Perhaps the "correctness" of leather bound dictionaries is now threatened by the speed of etymological mutation. Of further interest; the online dictionary of etymology does not refer to the adjective at all despite entries for hibernation and hibernia. In any event the whole episode just goes to show that the British should never have allowed the likes of the Irish to learn your language only to later start inventing words for themselves. Then again I suppose that is just part of a very deep tolerance which is a major characteristic of your people jacko1 - Jan, 17 2010 08:01pm Hugh, although, like most English people I am prone to poke gentle fun at the Irish I am well aware of the major contributions that the Irish have made to other cultures spread across the world, including most of the New York police force:-).