<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 14 February 2007 - Volume 01<br><br>=========================================================================<br><br>From: <span id="_user_rhondshoven@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Hondshoven <
<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.02.05 (01) [A/E]<br><br><font size="2">Hello Elsie,</font>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="2">Thanks
for your interesting notes on the usage of 'toe' in Afrikaans.
Unfortunately, my knowledge of Afrikaans is just poor. Nevertheless, I
am inclined to think your 'toe' is used rather more like in Dutch,
where the interjection 'toe' is used to introduce an admonition (toe,
schiet op), a kind of entreaty (toe, geef me nog een stuk taart) like
English 'please' .</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="2">'Teu'
in East-Brabant (and perhaps in Limburg) is used to emphasize that an
event, contrary to what might be expected, does/did take place. The
meaning is then somrthing like 'toch wel'. As such it reminds me very
much of the use of 'do' in English in similar occasions, as for
instance in 'But he does speak Russian! (contrary to what you think)/
He doesn't speak Russian. But he does! '. In Getelands it would sound
like 'Teu, teu, hij kent Russisch'.</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="2">Groete,</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><font size="2">Roger Hondshoven</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Elsie Zinsser <<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.02.04 (03) [E]
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></div>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Haai julle,</span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Interessant, Roger. </span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">Ek het gedink 'teu' is dalk dieselfde as die tussenwerpsel in Afrikaans 'toe'
</span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">soos in:</span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Nou toe nou! Wanneer het julle geland? </span></font><font color="navy" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL"></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Nou ja toe, dan moet julle seker maar hier oorslaap.</span></font><font color="navy" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL"></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Toe toe, gaan nou asseblief terug na julle klasse toe!</span></font><font color="navy" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL"></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Toe maar, hou op met huil.</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">
</span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">-Ag, toe! Hou op katterig wees.</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">
</span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">Groete,</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">
</span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">Elsie Zinsser</span></font><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="NL">
</span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span><font color="navy"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">***<br></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">From: <span>Roger Hondshoven < <a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
rhondshoven@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.02.02 (07) [E]</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Hi everybody,</span></font><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">
</span> </font></p>
<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">In
East-Brabant (Getelands dialect) we have the interjection /teu/ (eu
sounding like German Söhne), very often as a reduplication /teu teu/
meaning "and yet, but it's true". Teu is nothing but the 3rd person
singular (with normal umlaut) of the verb 'doen', originally /et deu/,
'het doet', which is formally and semantically similar to English 'it
does'.<br><span class="ad"><br></span></span></font><br>