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L O W L A N D S - L - 31 December 2006 - Volume 05<br>======================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">jonny <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">
jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Etymology'<br><br>Dear Lowlanners,<br><br>my last words for this year!<br><br>Does
anybody of our LS-speakers (there are lots of them active ones, at the
moment!) know the word LS: 'killern'? One of those words sleeping
beneath the sediments of a live with dominating Standard German- it
came to me today when I played with my young dog. I think I didn't use
or hear it for a good 40 years...<br>It means something like E: 'to tickle (excessively)", close to a torture.<br>In accordance to OnED it even could be cognate with 'to kill'.<br><br>Then
I came across the word D: 'verkiezing', meaning E: 'election'. I can't
find any related, neither in E nor in G or LS. Any idea about the stem?<br><br>And
here the last nut to crunch: E: 'guy' and LS(Stellingwarfs): 'goie'
(meaning 'my good one' when e.g. starting a letter)- could that once
have been of one and the same?<br><br>Thanks in award!<br><br>Greutens/Regards<br><br>Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm<br><br>----------<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com
</a>><br>Subject: Etymology<br><br>Jonny,<br><br>I sure know <span style="font-style: italic;">killern</span>, use it in Low Saxon as well as Missingsch. I don't think it's related to 'to kill', though. I think something's going on with /dd/ ~ /ll/ there.
<br><br>Dutch <span style="font-style: italic;">kiezen</span> 'to choose' is related to Low Saxon <span style="font-style: italic;">koyren</span> 'to choose'. It's the old <span style="font-style: italic;">
r</span> ~ <span style="font-style: italic;">z</span> alternation thing that you also get in the variation of <span style="font-style: italic;">verlaren</span> ~ <span style="font-style: italic;">verlazen</span> 'lost' in Low Saxon dialects.
<br><br>I thought that "guy" came from the French men's name Guy. <span style="font-style: italic;">Goie</span> is a dialectical variant of <span style="font-style: italic;">goude</span> 'good one'.
<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br><br>
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