LL-L "Language varietiesr" 2005.12.05 (04) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 08 December 2005 * Volume 04
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From: Sean Roach <sroa at loc.gov>
Subject: language varieties

Ron, the discussion about zich rang a bell with me, and I think I found the 
answer in B.C. Donaldson's 1983 book Dutch : a linguistic history of Holland 
and Belgium:

"The third person singular and plural reflexive pronoun zich is of German 
origin, as the final gutteral fricative indicates.  Dutch formerly (and even 
now in dialects and Afrikaans) used the object form of the third person 
pronouns as reflexives, as we still do in English, e.g. he washes 
himself/she washes herself/they wash themselves-- compare Afrikaans hy was 
hom/sy was haar/hulle was hulle.  Zich did not become common in Holland 
until the sixteenth century, under the influence of Reformation literature 
from Germany.  Its incorporation into the State Translation of the Bible in 
the seventeenth century assured its place in ABN.  However, in plat one 
still very commonly hears the following forms, an indication that zich is 
not an indigenous word: z'n eigen (lit. his own)/d'r eigen (lit. her own, 
their own)."

Sean Roach 

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