NETTO Question

[Shoulbe]

What does the term Netto stand for? Is it an acronym or some sort of
abbreviation? I'm not asking for an explanation of it in theory or in use I'd
just like to know from where the term derives.

[Ralph Jones]

On 13 Sep 2003 20:39:48 GMT, (Shoulbe) wrote:

>What does the term Netto stand for? Is it an acronym or some sort of
>abbreviation? I'm not asking for an explanation of it in theory or in use I'd
>just like to know from where the term derives.

It's the German word for net, as in net amount.

rj

[Eggert Ehmke]

Ralph Jones wrote:

>>What does the term Netto stand for? Is it an acronym or some sort of
>>abbreviation? I'm not asking for an explanation of it in theory or in use
>>I'd just like to know from where the term derives.
>
> It's the German word for net, as in net amount.

It's for sure not german. Also in german it's a foreign word, I guess it
stems from latin.

Eggert

[Stefan]

>What does the term Netto stand for? Is it an acronym or some sort of
>abbreviation?

No abbreviation, no Latin, just a simple Italian word. In this sense
first used in the 15th or 16th century by merchants.

netto: pure, unmixed
brutto: raw, crude

and then there's tara, which was derived from Arab taraha: to remove.

Stefan

[Simon Waddell]

and of course Tara was the name of the estate in "Gone With The Wind" - a
most appropriate title for a soaring story, perhaps. "Ta-ra" also means
goodbye in the dialect of Liverpool, England.


"Stefan" <"stefan"@mus. INVALID .ch> wrote in message
...
> >What does the term Netto stand for? Is it an acronym or some sort of
> >abbreviation?
>
> No abbreviation, no Latin, just a simple Italian word. In this sense
> first used in the 15th or 16th century by merchants.
>
> netto: pure, unmixed
> brutto: raw, crude
>
> and then there's tara, which was derived from Arab taraha: to remove.
>
> Stefan

[rjciii]

> It's the German word for net, as in net amount.

Das ist nichts einen deutsches (in my best attempt at pig-german).

Don't know too many gutteral languages that have a lot of words ending
with vowels--sorta defeats the emphatic cadence. Romantic languages
and Japanese, maybe, but German? Je ne sais pas, mon ami!