Timber and Lumber

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   Recently lumber caught my eye. (I own a small forest, you know).

Timber

May I give away the secret:
   timber are trees, alive and growing, usually, but sometimes already lumbered, i.e. cut dead.
A lumberjack is the one who did it.
   Most Europeans just know shoes from “Timberland”, in the US:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timberland_Company 

Lumber

Lingusitically the exciting part is about lumber. Read here:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/lumber-word-history-lombard

Lumber stems from Lombardy, Lombardia – Lombardei in German. Ethymologically the origin is Langbart, long beard, and that sounds reasonable. Beard in all forms used to be very popular in all Europe, see Bart at Grimm’s.

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