<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  -  28 May 2007 - Volume 08</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_reuben@uniserve.com" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reuben Epp</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
 <<a href="mailto:reuben@uniserve.com">reuben@uniserve.com</a>></span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Idiomatica" 
2007.05.29 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: Soenke Dibbern <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:s_dibbern@web.de">
s_dibbern@web.de</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> ></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: dood blieven [LS/Scandinavian]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
the Low Saxon speaking among you will know the expression 'dood blieven'</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(to die, "to remain dead"). I always wondered how this came into the
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">language. 'blieven' is normally used alike to German 'bleiben' (stay,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">remain).</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kind regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sönke</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reuben Epp </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:reuben@uniserve.com">
reuben@uniserve.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> replies:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">My understanding of the term 'doot bliewen' means to die. It appears to
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">have originated among the north coastal Low Saxons of Germany, many</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
of whom engaged in fishing and general seafaring. Some who engaged</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">in seafaring failed to return. In such case family members referred to
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">occurence as 'opp See bläwen.' This simply meant that the missing person</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">had died at sea. Apparently, this later developed into 'doot blieven.'</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Cheers!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reuben Epp</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">