LL-L "Names" 2003.09.17 (03) [E]

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From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at gnu.org>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.09.16 (15) [E]

Moyn (synnejysk: mojn) Fiete,

I will see what I can figure out about Lønbørger Hejde or what it is
called (I am the lucky owner of maps :)

> Manne tak (Oh,oh!)

That is not "Oh, oh!" - that is perfect Jutish. In Standard Danish it
would be "Mange tak" but "manne" og "månne" are the Jutish versions of
that word

Gröytens,
Kenneth

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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.09.16 (02) [E]

> From: Ben J. Bloomgren <godsquad at cox.net>
> Subject: Duisburg?
>
> Hello, Lowlanders. I have never been to the
> Lowlands. In fact, Mexico and
> Canada are the only foreign countries to which I
> have been, but I have heard
> of a city in southwestern Germany called Duisburg. I
> am confident that it is
> not within the Lowlands area, but it ties to the
> list. I am taking a
> mythology class at community/junior college, and we
> touched on the Germanic
> god of laws and legal contracts. The teacher spelled
> his name Tuiz. Is that
> a Lowlands spelling? Is Duisburg named after that
> particular deity? If not,
> after what did they name it, and when was it named?
> I know that d and t are
> common letters that interchange with the passage of
> time.
> Ben

Goeidag Ben,

*TUIZ is one of the reconstructed forms of an
Indo-European name of which e.g. Greec and Latin got
the form Zeus and Deus, presumably their highest gods.

In Germanic this name is commonly known in a
Scandinavian form of some later time: Tyr.
Your 'Thirsday' is named after him. Blessed be his
name.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.09.16 (08) [E]

> From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Names" 2003.09.16 (02) [E]
>
> Hi Ben,
>
>> ...but I have heard
>> of a city in southwestern Germany called Duisburg. I am confident
>> that it
> is
>> not within the Lowlands area, but it ties to the list.
>
> Duisburg is actually in what still counts as the Northwest; it is
> pretty
> much the westernmost big city on the Ruhr river, in North
> Rhine-Westphalia.
> So, since we have been dealing here with Westfalian Platt, among other
> things, you're not as off-topic as you think.
>
> Gabriele Kahn
Hi,
There is also a "Duisburg"  in   Brabant (Belgium). It is now part of
the city of Tervuren.

groetjes
luc vanbrabant
oekene

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