<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 25 June 2007 - Volume 03</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_roepstem@hotmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcel Bas</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:roepstem@hotmail.com">
roepstem@hotmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.25 (01) [E/LS]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Hi Elsie,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
You remarked: </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><blockquote style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Ron, in Afrikaans, the
color green also denotes jealousy; 'Hy was groen van jaloesie toe
ek..." but I think it comes from the English language (or Low Saxon?)
rather than being a cultural remnant from Dutch, German or French. <br><br>Yellow has no negative connotation in Afrikaans, unless Mark, Petrus or Marcel can tell us otherwise. <br></blockquote>
<font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Sans-serif">As a matter of fact,
there is a negative connotation in Dutch. "Ik erger me groen en geel
aan dit nieuwe beleid" = "This new policy is irritates the hell out of
me." So it denotes 'to get irritated till you are green and yellow in
the face'. </font><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
In Russian both green and yellow seem to derive from the same root: </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?t=15251_2_1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font color="#000000">зелёный</font></a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> (zelyonyj 'green') and </span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?t=191200_2_1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<font color="#000000">жёлтый</font></a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> (zhyoltyj 'yellow'), though I am not sure. </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Groetjes,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Marcvel.</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: </span><span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.25 (01) [E/LS]
</span><br>
<br><div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Beste
Marcus,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Du
schreyvst:</font></span></div><span class="q">
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#008080"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Kumm < Kumme, fem."? Ik kinn Kump,
mask. för Schötel oder en gröttern</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Beker. Un dat passt mit dat 'p' beter to
coombe, oder? Warrt foken ok</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#008080">afslepen to
Kumm.</font> </span></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div></span>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Bithertou
hebb 'ck ouk man alleyn dennen '<em>Kummen'</em> mask edders de
'<em>Kumme'</em>, fem. kennt. Man- Diin <em>'Kump(en)'</em> kunn woll de
öllste Form ween un' herinnert mii an Böberdüütsch <em>'Humpen'</em>,
mask.</font></span></div>
<div> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Jonny
Meibohm</font><br>