Re: more Eaton, anyone?

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> #> #sortie (military)       (F) sortie      (G) Ausfall     (S) salida
> #> nu guntygunta
> #Why not?
>
> Well, because it's not that descriptive. bandygunta, perhaps.

I think that "bartu" belongs in there someplace: a sortie, as the other 3
languages show, is very explicitly an attack for the purpose of breaking
>out< of something.  It is not a "defensive attack", insofar as I understand
what that means at all.

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