<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 05 June 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_altkehdinger@freenet.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm <<a href="mailto:altkehdinger@freenet.de">altkehdinger@freenet.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.06.04 (01) [D/E]</span><br><br><div><span><font face="Courier">Hi, beste
Marcel,</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">Du
schreyvst:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#008080" face="Courier" size="2">>
By the way, isn't Moses reputed to have HAD black cattle with red
<strong>specks</strong>?</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">Wow- I'd never known this
word E:<em>'<strong>speck'</strong></em><strong> </strong>before, but it's
opening my eyes for some etymological correlations and perhaps
disrelations.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">Lots of northern German
place-names contain '-specken', e.g. 'Speckenbüttel', 'Am Specken'
etc., them always situated in the centre of villages, probably meaning
a central place for the market. Could at last have been the legal forerunner of
G: 'Flecken' (basic meaning same as in English 'specken'), denoting a village or
town with a certain right called 'Marktrecht', which allowed people
from the surrounding to sell their goods here. </font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier">But: other place-names
with the same '-specken' within them denote something very different. You'll
find streets as 'Speckenweg', 'Speckenpatt' or technical terms as
'Faehrspecken'</font> <font face="Courier">and this time the 'Specken'
probably originates from LS: 'Speyken', related to 'Spacken', E: 'spoke', G:
'Speiche' as a term for wooden bars which were used to arm a morastic
way.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">Last but not least we
find the words LS/G: 'Speck', E: 'bacon' (which words LS/G are explained in the
'Herkunftsduden' as being related to any IE 'Hinterbacke'/'buttock', which I
don't believe at all) and LS (Eastern Prussia) 'spicken', E: 'to stitch', G:
'stechen'.</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">I'm eager to hear your
ideas!</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font face="Courier">BTW: should Moses have
been the first breeder of Holstein-Frisian cows ;-)?</font></span></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier">Allerbest!</font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Courier">Jonny Meibohm</font><br></div><br>