* Jeroen Roovers <j...@gentoo.org> [120307 21:25]: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:36:05 -0500 > Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > FYI, any Russian speaker is *guaranteed* to read the name ".eb" as a > > very common obscenity. > > In Dutch it means the low tide, and as a verb, it means "becoming low" > or "decreasing" as in the tide or some other fluid. > > In English it means something very similar as in the Dutch verb, only > without the tidal reference. Other Germanic languages will probably > have their own variants.
It has the same meaning in English as well. The tide can ebb. Also, there are ebb tides (and neap tides as well.) Todd
