LL-L: "Meals" [E/S] LOWLANDS-L, 28.JUL.1999 (02)

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From: gft [gftighe2 at home.com]
Subject: LL-L: "Etymology" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 26.JUL.1999 (01)

Hi Epicureans
It would seem incorrect to say 'a meal is a meal is a meal'.

> From: Bob Stockman [bsman at iserv.net]
> Subject: LL-L: "Etymology" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 23.JUL.1999 (02)

Some snipping

> Regards supper, which is what we called the evening meal in northern Germany
> and in the rural Low German communities in the states.  Perhaps the evening
> meal was primarily gruel or soup, out of a common bowl.  Then possibly
> "soup" or "suppen" as we call it in Low German had something to do with the
> evening meal becoming "supper".  And then again, maybe not.

Quoted From Merriam-Webster

Main Entry: 1sup
Pronunciation: 's&p
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): supped; sup·ping
Etymology: Middle English suppen, from Old English supan, suppan;
akin to Old High German sufan to drink, sip, Old English sopp sop
Date: before 12th century transitive senses : to take or drink in swallows or
gulps
intransitive senses, chiefly dialect : to take food and especially liquid
food into the mouth a little at a time

With reference to the above "...gruel or soup, out of a common bowl.": I seem to

remember a sentence to the effect that 'one should sup with a long spoon' when
eating with the devil [or his ilk].

Onieweys, Am aff tae feed my face.

Byde Wyle

Gerald

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