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> Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch". "das Log" is a device for measuring the speed of vessels: > https://de.wikiped
by wolfgke 8y ago
> Oh and "Das Logbuch" has nothing to do with "log" but everything with "Buch".
"das Log" is a device for measuring the speed of vessels:
> https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Log_(Messger%C3%A4t)&oldid=184060985 https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Log_(Messger%C3%A...
So of course a "Logbuch" has a lot to do with a "Log".
- onli 8y agoNot with the gender of the word. The last noun counts.
- wolfgke 8y ago> Not with the gender of the word. The last noun counts. OK, then I misunderstood - you were talking about this elementary grammatical rule and I was talking about the origin of the word "Logbuch" (the latter is something that even many native German speakers do not know).
- usrusr 8y agoThe log (as in chronologically written record) surely derives from the book where the log measurements were recorded, so it's all the same basically. Nauticalese is like a separate language that "infects" coastal languages with common terminology. Of course this would all be much more interesting if Log and Buch did not share gender.