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From: Jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.09.20 (04) [E]

Beste Marcel,



if you want some more information about 'telen', 'zielen' etc you might find
a look into GRIMM, *'Deutsches Wörterbuch'* (
http://germazope.uni-trier.de/Projects/WBB/woerterbuecher/dwb/wbgui?lemid=GA00001
lemma:
'zielen') interesting. Quite a lot of stuff!



Allerbest; have a nice Sunday evening!



Jonny Meibohm


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From: Wolfram Antepohl <wolfram at antepohl.se>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.09.20 (01) [E]

Diederik,



No, I'm not sure. If you ask people, most would relate spiskummin to "spis"
= "oven", which by itself is related to "spis" = "food", "dish", accordning
to my Swedish ethymology. However, I couldn't find an ethymological
explanation for "spiskummin". To me the connection you make appears very
reasonable. It fits the pointy shape of the plant, doesn't it? But whatever
explanation is the right one - they both lead us back to lowlands (Dutch/LS)
influence on the Scandinavian languages.



Greetings



Wolfram

Are you sure "spiskummin" means 'oven cumin'? In Norwegian it's written
"spisskummen", from "spiss", Dutch "spits", meaning something like 'pointy'.
So litterally "pointy caraway".
Norw:
cumin = spisskummen OR spisskarve

caraway = kummin OR karve (in both cases karve/kummin can be freely
interchanged)

Greetings, Diederik

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Wolfram Antepohl

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wolfram at antepohl.se
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