LL-L 'Etymology' 2006.12.31 (05) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L - 31 December 2006 - Volume 05
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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology'

Dear Lowlanners,

my last words for this year!

Does anybody of our LS-speakers (there are lots of them active ones, at the
moment!) know the word LS: 'killern'? One of those words sleeping beneath
the sediments of a live with dominating Standard German- it came to me today
when I played with my young dog. I think I didn't use or hear it for a good
40 years...
It means something like E: 'to tickle (excessively)", close to a torture.
In accordance to OnED it even could be cognate with 'to kill'.

Then I came across the word D: 'verkiezing', meaning E: 'election'. I can't
find any related, neither in E nor in G or LS. Any idea about the stem?

And here the last nut to crunch: E: 'guy' and LS(Stellingwarfs): 'goie'
(meaning 'my good one' when e.g. starting a letter)- could that once have
been of one and the same?

Thanks in award!

Greutens/Regards

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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

Jonny,

I sure know killern, use it in Low Saxon as well as Missingsch.  I don't
think it's related to 'to kill', though.  I think something's going on with
/dd/ ~ /ll/ there.

Dutch kiezen 'to choose' is related to Low Saxon koyren 'to choose'.  It's
the old r ~ z alternation thing that you also get in the variation of
verlaren ~ verlazen 'lost' in Low Saxon dialects.

I thought that "guy" came from the French men's name Guy.  Goie is a
dialectical variant of goude 'good one'.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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