LL-L "Etymology" 2005.05.25 (08) [E]

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: Etymology

Dear Lowlanners,

a good week ago I did ask you for the explanation of _thegn_ - an no one
answered! (Buu-uuh-  I felt unloved by all of you ☺)!
I made my own investigations and found it out to be a more Old Saxon than an
English term, in the varying meanings of : G: ‘Nachkömmling’, maybe
‘Lehensmann’, but also ‘Degen’, E: ‘sword’.

This evening I had a visit to any old friends and native LS-speakers, and I
tried out to use this word in relation to the, meaning my son himself,
specially meaning ‘Nachkömmling’. I did use it twice, and they seemed to
understand. there wasn’t the chance to verify it, because we dran some ‘Grog’,
though havin summertimes-temperatures.
 But- I didn’t know this word- or something  similar in our LS-dialect-
before. But I feeel myself near to it; it sounds, in a undefinable way,
very inimate to me.

Ron, and others- is there still any word of this kind I could have any
unconscience rememberance at?

I apologize for Thomsing bett wreitingh!

Greutens/Regards

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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

Jonny:

> (Buu-uuh-  I felt unloved by all of you ☺)!

Come on now!  You know very well that we are all passionately in love with
you.  It's only that we are at times so overcome by it that we are at a loss
for words ...

This is what I know:

Old English: þegn, þegen, þén 'boy', 'servant', 'warrior', 'hero'
Old Saxon: thegan 'boy', 'servant', 'warrior', 'hero'
Old German: degan  'boy', 'servant', 'warrior', 'hero' > Degen
Old Norse: þegn 'freeman', 'liegeman'
Gothic: ?
Germanic: *þegno 'child', 'boy'
Pre-Germanic: *tek-nó- 'child'
Greek: τέκνον (téknon) 'child' (tek- ~ tok- 'to beget')

Cheerio!
Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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