How do German Translators Say - - - ?

[Jo UK]

At Brit's request, here is a similar topic for the German language translators.

[Liis]

I am looking forward to the German translation of allikasoo - where spruces only grow to dwarf size - with great interest!
Hmm - there is maybe a nice bog, mire, fen and forest type Estonian-German glossary?

[Liis]

I am looking forward to the German translation of allikasoo - where spruces only grow to dwarf size - with great interest!
Hmm - there is maybe a nice bog, mire, fen and forest type Estonian-German glossary?

Only me getting lost in translations?
I didn't find "allikasoo" in German, but a very enjoyable Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names as consolation prize.

PS. Once you have trampled from the allikasoo to a nice British spring fen, you can get out on a Quellmoor too

[Arvi]

I searched for Englisch 'spring' here, and got same result after spending about 5 minutes on it only :-))

[Brit]

Liis is right, I also get as translation for 'spring fen' Quellmoor.

'spring' itself means 'Quelle' or 'Frühjahr# (season) or, or, or ...

[leonia]

In Bavaria you would say "Quellmoos" because they use "Moos" or "Filz(e)n" for "Moor" which all mean "bog" or "fen".
A spring fen or Quellmoor you find where a lot of water is gathering in a bog and later on will form a river.
I don't think it has anything to do with spring=Frühling.

[Katinka]

One more annotation from German language to German-interested members -
Our new mushroom camera installation has inspired me for German mushroom names - one of few examples that German can be a pictureful language...

Coral Tooth or Hericium coralloides is Ästiger Stachelbart - as it is to read from the German translation team (well done!!).

If you'd translate this back into English literally, the result is a "prickly (thorny) beard having branches". A relate in this family is our Igelstachelbart/ Affenkopfpilz ("lit. ape's head mushroom") -more compact in its look.
So, all very nature-near describtions...

Further annotations to the coral tooth on the forum's "Mushroom Camera" topic.

[Liis]

Welcome, Katinka!

Back to the allikasoo, by now identified as spring fen and Quellmoor: I was suitably impressed to find it included in the Rambling Dictionary of Tallinn Street Names, even if written as Alliksoo.
However, the author disregards the finer paludological nuances of various kinds of fens, moors, mires, marshes, is somewhat distracted by the grammar in the word, and simply concludes "Basically: somewhere wet."

[Lena101]

Quellmoor means it is fed by a water source. A requirement is the presence of groundwater. The spring water is usually rich in oxygen and limestone, thereby creating highly decomposed peat.