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From: Frank Verhoft <frank.verhoft at skynet.be>
Subject: Folklore

Hi all,

First of all, thanks to everybody who replied so far! Thanks for the
corrections, remarks and the additions and the reference to older posts.
It's indeed Poortvliet's book that kind of triggered the questions, more
than a yearning for an early Halloween, but...

Gabrielle:
<<<But this is not an old book - it was written and illustrated by the late
Rien Poortvliet, probably the finest wildlife painter that ever lived, in
the 1970s.<<<

The 1970s??? That's the Middle Ages, vrouwe mijn :-)).
(A minor detail, though, the text of "Leven en werken van de kabouter" is by
Wil Huygen!)

Ron wrote:
<<<There is a goblin that specializes in nautical pursuits, doing his thing
on ships.  He is called _klabauter-man_ (<Klabautermann>) or just
_klabauter_ (<Klabauter>), also _klabater(s)(-man)_ (<Klabater(s)(mann)).
This is
obviously related to Dutch _kabouter_.  I would go as far as speculating
that it is derived from Dutch, given that _olC_ > _ouC_ (hence *_kabolter_ >
_kabouter_) is a shift that is specific to certain Low Franconian varieties,
including Dutch and Afrikaans.  (However, the /l/ was preserved, albeit in
the "wrong" place.)<<<

This form i found in Debrabandere's 'West-Vlaams etymologisch woordenboek',
in the lemma _kaboud_ / _klaboud_. He explains the extra 'l' in k-l-aboud
due to epenthesis, rather than a preservation of the l in _olC_. This
*seems* to be parallelled by words with similar l-insertion as _kabotse_,
_klabotse_, where historically there was no l (or _olC_) at all.

Looking further, i found in the old "Beknopt etymologisch woordenboek" by
Vercoullie following explanation:
High Germ. _Kobold_: is a redudplication van _balderen_, _bolderen_, and
hence a synonym of _poltergeist_.
I must say that i encountered already a lot of doubtful explanations in this
work, and this one too is counterspoken by most other resources i found.

Groetjes,

Frank

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