LL-L "Etymology" 2003.10.09 (06) [E]

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From: Andy (Scots-Online) <andy at scots-online.org>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2003.10.08 (09) [E]

Andy (Scots-Online) Wrote:
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> Elsie Zinsser wrote:
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> > Yes, reminds me of the 'neuk' in Muckleneuk (Pretoria) which presumably
> > means hill.
>
> Could that perhaps be Scots Muckle = 'big', 'large' and Neuk = 'a
projecting
> point of land', 'the corner of a building or street', 'an outlying or
remote
> place'?
>
> Andy Eagle

R. F. Hahn wrote:

> Andy (above):
>
> I take it that _neuk_ is related to English "nook."  Correct?  It is
> believed to be related to Norwegian dialectal _nōk_.  Apparently it is not
> derived from Gaelic _niuc_.  The latter apparently is an Old Scots loan,
> which also made its way into Irish.

That seems to be the case.
Neuk historically [nøk] which depending on dialect became [njuk, njʌk] and
[nʌk]. Other words with a similar phonological history are beuk (book), ceuk
(cook), heuk (hook), leuk (look) teug (tug) and teuk (took)
historically these were often written 'buik' etc. but this no longer fits
the phonological developments in other words with historical /ø/ such as
guid (good), buit (boot) and puir (poor).

Andy Eagle

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