<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 10 April 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_marless@gmx.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"M.-L. Lessing" <<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.04.09 (01) [LS]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q"><div><font size="4"><div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
<font size="2">(<span style="font-style: italic;">med></span>)<span style="font-style: italic;">met elk ander</span> > mee 'lk aar > <span style="font-style: italic;">mekaar<br><br></span>Wenn 't nich uut Papeer bood is,
denn is Di dat amenn ook 'n Äselsbr</font><font size="2">ügg. Wat
meenst?<br><br></font></div></font></div></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Ja! :-)</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="4">Marlou<br><br><font size="2">----------<br><br></font></font>From: "Rikus Kiers" <<a href="mailto:kiersbv@tiscali.nl">kiersbv@tiscali.nl</a>><br>
Subject: Mekaar<br><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="NL">
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<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Marlou Lessing wrote about mekaar.</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Mekaar is used in The Netherlands</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Mekaar = elkaar, which is derived from elkander. In
saxon elkanner. In former times I also heard some people say malkander. I heard
it in the North, where Saxon language might be the origin. It might be related
to "mekaar".</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Maybe it helps you further Marlou</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Vriendelijke groet,</span></font></p>
<p><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Rikus Kiers </span></font></p>
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</div></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_victorie.a@home.nl" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
A Victorie</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:victorie.a@home.nl">victorie.a@home.nl</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.04.08 (03) [D/LS]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">
Moi Marlou, Rikus, Theo, Reinhard</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">In Drenthe ha'w veur <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">mekaar</span></b> ok verschillende varianten.</span>
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<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">mekaar (ZO Drenthe, ZW zand, Midden
Drenthe,)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">mekaor (NO Drenthe)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">mekaer, menaer,
menaander, mekaander (ZWN Drenthe)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">mekare, menaar,menare (ZW Drenthe)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">einander (Bargercompascuum)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">malkaor, 'nkandern (Midden Drenthe)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">'nkander(k) (NO, ZO Drenthe)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">'nkaander (ZW,MI Drenthe)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">menander, menaor (Proeve van een
woordenboek van de Drentse volkstaal in de negentiende eeuw.)</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">De "Bentheimer foezel" wörde vrogger
nog al riegelmaotig naor Drenthe en aandere contreien in-evoerd.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">'t Mut een soort jenèver weden.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Goodgaon,</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Arend Victorie </span></font></p><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">