<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 - 22 June 2007 - Volume 05</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.23 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Dear Heather:</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L
"Etymology"</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Coombe - valley</div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
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<div>" cumb / coombe has been generally regarded as one of a handful
of OE words which are adaptations of Primitive Welsh" viz cwm from Margaret
Gelling "The Landscape of Place Names"</div>
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<div>Or has this been superseded by new evidence?</div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Let me contribute 'kom', an Afrikaans
word for basin, bowl, jorum, hollow, dale or vale. As a nation we had
little to do with the Ancient Welsh People or Language, more's the
pity...</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Yrs,</font></div>
<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2">Mark</font><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;">
----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">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: Etymology<br><br>Good one, Mark!<br><br>In Low Saxon it's <span style="font-style: italic;">kum</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">Kumm</span> < <span style="font-style: italic;">Kumme</span>, fem.) for 'basin', 'bowl', etc.
<br><br>Another etymological question here, folks. Does anyone know the story behind the Low Saxon use of <span style="font-style: italic;">geel</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">gääl</span>) "yellow" as "("High") German" (or as "Germanized Low Saxon")? In Olland (Altes Land) it's
<span style="font-style: italic;">groyn</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">gröön</span>) "green" instead.<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br></span>