LL-L "Etymology" 2003.11.10 (02) [E]

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A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at pandora.be>
Subject: Etymology

Beste Stella en Henno,

A common duck is called "een ènne" (~ eend (D), Ente (G)) in my Brabantish
and a drake is "nen élper" or "nen ölper" (~ Erpel (G)).

Flemish has many forms like "aande", "aandin", "boele", "goele", "piel" and
"wertel" for a duck on the one hand, and "massel(aar)",  "erpel", "kerpel",
"wertel" and "woerd" for a male duck on the other hand. There are even more
possible words to denote these animals, but I'm giving you the ones that
occur most frequently.

There are other sorts of ducks however, like Aythya fuligula, Aythya ferina
and Aythya marila that are often called "duikeend", "duikaande",
"duikeling", or "duiker", and given the Flemish pronunciation of "duiker"
like "dukker" (+ glottal stop) I can easily imagine that this word is a
cognate of English "duck".

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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