<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 - 29 May 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_s_dibbern@web.de" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Soenke Dibbern <<a href="mailto:s_dibbern@web.de">s_dibbern@web.de
</a>></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). I know that (modern) Danish has 'blive' in the sense of 'to</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">become'. So is this a scandinavism? I just know this one example for the
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">usage of 'blieven' for 'get, become' in LS. Are there others? If it was a</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">scandinavism, I would expect other examples for the changed meaning. If</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">not, where does it come from?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Do the other Lowlands Languages have cognates with the meaning of 'get,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">become'?</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;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Idiomatica<br><br>Hi, Sönke!</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">It's sure nice to hear from you. I believe this is your debut. So, welcome!
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Your question is one I've wanted to ask about for a long time. Great to see you beat me to it.
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">