LL-L "Etymology" 2003.08.08 (09) [E]

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From: Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann <Fieteding at gmx.net>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2003.08.08 (08) [E/LS]

Ron,

Du schreevst:

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Etymology
>
> Perhaps we've got to be careful here and not think in terms of today's
> nations and countries so much.  My hunch is that _plaats_ 'farm' is not
> due
> to Western influence but is due to Eastern Friesland (and its Frisian
> heritage) belonging to the region in which this meaning applies, most
> likely
> in which this meaning was *preserved*.  We need to consider the
> possibility
> that its absence in some other LS dialects could be due to *German*
> influence.
>
> Regards,
> Reinhard/Ron

Did You ever read my signum, about those "almighty [linguistic] Gods" ;-)?

On the first glance I couldn't find any words with "plaats" in our, i.g.
Yours and mine, dialect.
I assumed the border for this idiom at the river Weser (where we can find
the "Luneplate" etc.)- but: we have a "Rhiin-Plate" in the Elbe-river too,
naming a small sand-bank, just across the town of Glueckstadt (I am sure You
have seen it crossing the Elbe with the ferry).

Of course another meaning- but on the same base.

Kumpelmenten

Fiete.

(Friedrich W. Neumann)
Not Lucifer I fear,
but those almighty Gods.

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