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From: Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.30 (03) [E]

Hi all,

Oh, what fun to see these offerings from Arthur!

May I add that, in Afrikaans we have 'heugenis' referring to said memory, as
in
the line:

"Daar was nog nooit so 'n groot bruilof in menslike heugenis nie!"

I guess your reference also relates to A. 'gehug' (a ramshackle house),
perhaps
indicating a mere memory of the real thing?

Groete,
Elsie
English "*in cahoots with" *is a pejorative meaning closely conspiratorial.
Some have opined that it originated in Quebecois from a word for "hut",
"trapper's cabin". I disagree, particularly because of the Gothic phrase, "*in
gahugds mith", *meaning "of a common or shared thought or idea". The
*ga- *prefix
was, as in modern Germanic languages, a collective, as in Gemeente or
Gesellschaft. The stem element, *hugds-, *meant "thought". We see the same
word in *Hugin*, one of Odin's two ravens, *Hugin *and *Munin, *meaning
"thought" and "memory".

Arthur


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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.31 (03) [E]

> From: Arthur Jones <arthurobin2002 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.31 (02) [E]
>
> Hails, alla,
>
> Also, it seems that some things never change: the Gothic
> term *faihufreiks,
> *pronounced "feh-hu-freeks" meant greedy,
> avaricious; term often applied to
> lawyers. We might even have said "he (or she) is a fee
> freak!"
>
> Goljai thuk,
>
> Arthur

Arthur,

Counting on your infinite wisdom: could you say something about 'avarice' in
gothic [I'm aware that lawyers never discuss this topic].

I guess that oldgermanic -and gothic- [departing from Icelandic] had 2 words
for avarice: one word when concerning money or wealth, and the other word
when concerning food.

And then there should still be dialects/ll. having the same difference in
meaning; although they might use different words for these 2 distinctions.

sada faihiwe,
Theo Homan

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