LL-L: "Frisian" LOWLANDS-L, 08.JUN.2001 (02) [E]

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From: HS Brandsma [hsbrand at flits.cs.vu.nl]
Subject: "Frisian"

> From: Ian Eich [aneich at hotmail.com]
> Subject: Frisian "heit"
>
> I am learning West Frisian right now. When I was using the travlang.com
> English-Frisian translator, I encountered the word "heit"
> (pronounced like our word "hate"), meaning "father." I thought this was
> fairly odd, since all the other Germanic languages' words for "father"


Well, Frisian has some strange word"s for father", indeed. BTW, the
word _heit_ is pronounced more as English "hite", if this were a
word.., at least in Standard West Frisian. This seems to be a
children's word, indeed not derived from Old Germanic *fathar, or Old
Frisian _fether_ (only in the Hindeloopen dialect the word _fear_ is
derived from this stem). Another form from the island dialects is
_tae_ from Terschelling/Skylge, also a Lallwort, similar to North
Frisian _taate_ and so on.  As to _heit_, some make a connection to
Old Germanic *haitan, to command, but this is unlikely (this would
have been "hiet" in Modern west Frisian.

Hope this helps,

Henno Brandsma

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