LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.23 (01) [E]

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From: Ben Bloomgren <ben.bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.22 (10) [E]

I have a very peculiar way of saying "What the hell/f/..." I say, "What the
mother?" Is that just my extreme strangeness, or does anybody say anything
like that?

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From: Ben Bloomgren <ben.bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.22 (06) [E]

It was just a joke because that person forgot an o and the ly to say "too
quickly." Also, why do so many English speakers say things like "too quick?"

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From: heather rendall <HeatherRendall at compuserve.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.04.22 (06) [E]

Message text written by INTERNET:lowlands-l at LOWLANDS-L.NET
>Re: to quick and the quick and the dead<

OHG   quec =  modern English    live   the adjective not the verb

e.g   He shall come to judge the quick and the dead
 to cut yourself to the quick ( i.e. to the live & painful flesh)
  In Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden much was made about the Yorkshire
that  the boy Diccon spoke. The other two children learn it and one of
their favourite expressions is "feeling quick" i.e. feeling alive  and as
their activities outside and in the garden bring them back to health and
energy they constantly declaim "I feel quick as quick"
Quickthorn  is a fast setting hawthorn bush much used in hedges and known
locally as 'quickset'

quecan >> to quicken  i.e. to be alive or to become alive
 A  babe is said to have quickened when its firsat movements are detected
by the mother

The origins of 'quick' as we know it today are related cognitively to the
same meaning as 'Look lively' as used by the Navy.

Heather

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Thanks, Heather!

Here's a bit more.

Old Saxon:
kwik: alive, lively, life (adj.)
kwikōn (kwikôn): 'to live, 'to be alive'
ākwikōn (âkwikôn): 'to bring to life', 'to revive'
kwikhêd: 'liveliness', 'state of being alive'

Old Low Franconian:
kwik: alive, lively, life (adj.)

Old Frisian:
kwik: alive, lively, life (adj.)

Old German:
kwek (~ kwik): alive, lively, life (adj.)
(ir)kwekken: to bring to life
irkwekkēn (irkwekkên): to revive (trans.)
kwekkī (kwekkî): liveliness, state of being alive
kweklīhhī (kweklîhhî): life (being(s)), liveliness, state of being alive
kwekbrunno: fountain of life
kweksilabar: quicksilver, mercury

Old Norse:
kvikr: alive, life (adj.)
kvikna: to come to life
kveikja: to bring to life
kvękva (kväkva): to bring to life
kvikfē (kvikfê): (live) property, lifestock

Gothic:
qius: alive (Crimean)
gaqiunan: to come to life
anaqiujan: to bring to life
gaqiujan: to bring to life
qaiwjan: to bring to life

Indo-European (modified spelling):
*gwey- ~ gwey at - ~ gwyê- ~ gwiyô- ~ gwyô- ~ gwî-: to be alive

Note also preservation in (modern and pre-modern) Scots (incl. Shetlandic):


(1) quick, quik, kwikk, hwikk, whick, queek: life, alive, (alive with =)
infested



I’m seen the grund kwik wi’ hondiklokks. (... winged beetles)

quickhorn ~ quick horn: horn taken from a living animal

(2) quick, quik, kwikk, hwikk, whick, queek: > not stagnant, bubbling,
rippling

quick-water: running water, current
quick-spring
quick-sand
quick-fresh: spring in mossy ground
I stooped doon till the quick-water was rinnin’ ower my heid, an’ I drew oot
fish an’ cast an’ a’.

(3) quick, quik, kwikk, hwikk, whick, queek: living creature, esp. insect,
bug, etc.

Ointments for all sorts of wounds, &c. killing quicks or maggots

(http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/)

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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