LL-L "Traditions" 2007.06.09 (03) [E/A]

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From: <ppvaneeden at orange.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.06.01 (02) [E]

Goeie dag,

Dit was baie interessant Mark/John. Maar nou het ek 'n vraag by die rawe van
Wodan. Van Huginn het ons die woord geheue (geheugen). Maar is Hugenoot nie
ook afgelei van Huginn nie?

Dat Muninn kon lei tot memory en remind kan ek verstaan. Maar kom gemaan,
 aanmaan en aanmaning nie van Mannus nie? Dus van die woord maan. Ek wil
vermoed dat die woord man/mens en maan van dieslfde stam kom. Vergelyk
Ottomaan, humaan, Germaan, Romaan/Romein etc. Ook kom monkey van die woord
man/maan. Maar dat pas monnik hier ook bij! Ek wil verder vermoed dat money
ook van man/maan kom. Maar wat beteken die -ey in die auslaut van woorde
soos monkey, donkey, money, Orkney, etc.

Groeten,

Petrus van Eeden


From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net >
Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.06.06 (04) [E]

Dear John Welsh:

Subject: L-Lowlands Etymology

I was responding to a question about the survival or memory of the ancient
pagan gods & goddesses in Afrikaans terminology.

"..Kom ons kyk na Woedan, die As, heer van die gode. Hy is die god van die
storm en van die slagveld,..."

The primal Woden, chief of the dominant tribe of gods, the Aesir,  in
Ingweronian terms was identified as Wode, an entity in parallel with the
more developed & personalised Norse entity Odin, friend of warriors. This
Wode rode Sliepnur, was god of the Storm & the Wild Hunt, & associated with
battle fury. Afrikaans for fury is 'woede'. In Afrikaans, as I presume
is the case in many Lowlands languages, many of the great abstractions &
forces of Nature survive in the verbal references to their ancient domain...
Freyer, vry, to make love, court & vryer, lover: Frygge, vrug, fruit or
vrugbaar, to be fruitful: Doner, donder, thunder, or to commit an assault:
Loki, verlok, to lure or seduce: To Woden's ravens Hugin, thought, the
Afrikaans has gehue, & to Munnin, memory, the Afrikaans has gemaan, remind.
& so it goes.

Mon plaiseur M'seur.

Mark

merci beaucoup

John

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