LL-L 'Etymology' 2006.11.04 (04) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L * 04 November 2006 * Volume 04
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From: 'Ben J. Bloomgren' [Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu]
Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.11.02 (01) [E/LS/German]

In London, for example, the second largest river is the, now almost
totally subterranean, River Fleet. It is perhaps best known in the name
_Fleet
Street_, named after it, which houses (or housed) the offices of all the
major
British newspapers.

Wait a minute... I thought that Fleet Street had to do with, after all, the
British fleet! I didn't associate the name with Britain either. I saw Fleet
and thought about ships.
Ben

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From: Theo Homan [theohoman at yahoo.com]
Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.11.03 (02) [E/LS]

> From: 'Hugo Zweep' [Zweep at bigpond.com]
> Subject: LL-L 'Lexicon' 2006.11.02 (01)
> [E/LS/German]
>
> Hello again
> Isn't a "vliet" in the Dutch language simply a small
> stream of flowing
> water - any small stream of flowing water? And
> "vlieten" means to flow?
>
> Hugo Zweep

Hello,

Last days there has been some talk about 'vliet'.
And all the time I was thinking about 'vliet' as an
excellent example of the [old-]Germanic habit of
making new words by just changing the vowel.

So in Dutch we have the family: vliet / vloot / vlot /
vlet / vleet.
[Some of these words we might use only in
expressions.]
But there might be more of these words in this
word-family. Also in our friend-lowlands-neighbours
tongues.

vr.gr.
Theo Homan 

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