LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.30 (01) [E]

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From: wim <wkv at home.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.29 (03) [E]

From wim verdoold

wkv at home.nl

netherlands

zwolle city

Hi,

Yes that's  right,  I checked my dictionary..

and also think of the name and meaning of the First letter in the futhark

It s the Fe…(it sounds like f), and it s name symbolical can be understood
as wealth, or cattle.

wim

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

Ívison,

You wrote:
  I was reading something in Dutch and I ran into a word that is very
similar to English "Fee". It's vee, which means cattle. The fact is that
there is a connection between these two words. If I'm not wrong, the
word "FEE" in OE (Old English) meant cattle. As in Portuguese the Latin
word for those animals became our word "pecunia" which  means money. As
the old comunities used animals as money, it's not surprising that the
word fee which came from Old English feoh, became fee - money you pay for
a service.
  There's another word in English related to money, it's salary (salt).
The word salary comes from Latin Salarium, money given to soldiers.

Quite so. These are the types of interesting discoveries etymology offers.

Low Saxon has *vey* (*Veh*) [fɛˑɪ], German *Vieh* [fiː], all meaning
'lifestock', as does Dutch *vee*.

Old English: *feoh*, *fioh*, *féo*
Old Frisian: *fia*
Old Saxon: *fehu*
Old German: *fihu*, *fehu
*Old Norse: *fé*
Each one means 'lifestock', 'property' and 'money'

Gothic: *faihu*
This means only 'property', 'money'

Sanskrit: पशु *paśu
*This one means 'cattle'
It is in fact etymologically related to Latin *pecū*, which means that all
of the above are related.

Ívison, you seem to be making a lot of progress, considering that you can
read Dutch now.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
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