LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.10.14 (11) [E]

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From: Sandy Fleming <sandy at scotstext.org>
Subject: "Folklore" [E]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Science
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> Scots: ferny hoolet, broon hoolert,

I don't think you would normally need a qualifier in Scots for the tawny
owl - it would just be a "houlet" /'hul@?/.

A barn owl would be a "white houlet".

There's also the Scots word "oul" /u:l/ for owl, but this is very rare in my
experience.

Sandy
http://scotstext.org/

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From: Ruth & Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Folklore" 2004.10.13 (07) [E]

Hi, Ron,

Subject: Philology

Re: Science

While you're ringing the changes on 'Strix aluco', let's have a quick look
at the terms for 'owl', 'nightingale' & 'night-jar'; accross the dialectic
spectrum.
I think it would be quite interesting. One must specify, for example, in the
case of [Afrikaans] 'screech-owl' & 'night-jar'; both are called 'naguil'.
& looking at your [Danish] 'natugle', it doesn't seem too far off from
[Afrikaans] 'nagtegaal'; [English] 'nightingale'.
Would [English] 'eagle' feature somewhere here?

> Danish: natugle ("night owl")

Yrs,
Mark

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From: Grietje MENGER <grietje at menger.fsnet.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2004.10.14 (02) [E/French]

> From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Lexicon
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> Gabriele:
>
> > "Je heb mense en katuule, maar katuule 't méést"
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> Did you make this up or did someone else write it (in a Lowlands Saxon
> dialect of the Netherlands?)?

I seem to remember this from waaaaay back as well! Funny that, I just don't
know the detail anymore. I'm quite sure it was in dialect (Stellingwerfs),
can't think of a Dutch equivalent.

Grietje Menger
Scotland

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