LL-L "Etymology" 2011.01.03 (03) [EN]

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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>

Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.01.02 (06) [EN]



Dear Marlou:



Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2011.01.02 (01) [EN]



On thinking it over I should rather have left the answer in the 'choose /
choosing' string to Ron, but since he responded anyway I can relax, sit back
& say 'Me too."



But while I'm about it let me cite my *other* authority, Boshoff en Nienaber
'Afrikaanse Etimologeë'. for the entry:

'Kies' (2) werkwoord, uitsoek, om voorkeur te gee aan; Nederlands *kiezen*,
English *choose*, Goties *kiusan*, hou verb. m. Latyns *gustus*, "proef,
smaak", Grieks *geuo*, ek laat proe, *geuomai*, "ek proe" etc.



They make further reference, as Ron does, to a simile 'keur' by which in
Afrikaans we also mean to choose or select, or referring something
that *is*'select'. Then there is eg 'Die Uitgekorene', 'The Chosen
One/s'. I do not
know the processes that brought two different words so close in sound &
meaning, or if they started the same, how they diverged without differing in
meaning.



However there are many such. & is an ancient Teutonic rhetorical gambit to
use them together in a stock phrase, Afr 'kies en keur', Eng 'pick &
choose'.



As Ron noted:

And then there are what seem to be *-r* variants, such as Low Saxon *kọ̈ọ̈r-
* [kʰøːɐ̯] ~ [kʰœːɐ̯] ‘choose’, *Kọ̈ọ̈r-* [kʰøːɐ̯] ~ [kʰœːɐ̯] ‘choice’,
German *Kür* [kʰyːɐ̯] ‘freestyle (in figure skating)’, and archaic (mostly
biblical) forms such as *kür-* ‘choose’ and *(aus)erkoren* ‘chosen’.

Proto-Germanic: **kuza* ‘choice’, ‘examination’, **kauzj-* ~
**kuz-*‘choose’, ‘examine’
Old German: *(ge)kiosan* ‘to choose’, *korōn* ‘to choose’
Old Saxon: *(gi)kiosan* ‘to choose’
Old Frisian: *ziāsa* ‘to choose’, *kere* ‘choice’
Old English: *céosan* ‘to choose’, *coren* ‘chosen’, *cyrelīf* ‘being chosen
(by an aristocrat)’
Old Norse: *kjosa* ‘to choose’, *kjọr* ~ *kjẹr* ‘choice’
Gothic: *(ga)kiusan* ‘to choose’

By the way, with a *-t* suffix this group created Words such as German *
kosten* ‘to taste’, ‘to try (food)’, and *Kost* ‘fare (=food)’.



Thanks Ron. Btw, out of Pretoria Jo'burg way there is or was a highly
respected German restuarant trading under the sign 'Feinkost'. Yum!

Yrs,

Mark



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