<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 26 June 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_globalmoose@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Global Moose Translations <<a href="mailto:globalmoose@t-online.de">globalmoose@t-online.de</a>></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.25 (04) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span>Luc
wrote:</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span><span class="q">>See, Middle Saxon had
"gêl-oge", (geel-oog in Dutch) for the devil. I<br>>can't tell you why old
nick is considered to have yellow eyes (? <br></span>>cat-like
?)...</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>No, there's another animal
closely associated with the devil who has yellow eyes: a goat! I think that's
why he's supposed to have yellow eyes.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Gabriele
Kahn<br><br>----------<br><br></span>From: <span id="_user_globalmoose@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);"></span><span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">jonny</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.06.25 (05) [A/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br><div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Beste
Ron,</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Du
schreyvst:</font></span></div><span class="q">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#008080">> I
am now beginning to wonder if, as they disappeared from the lexicon of Low Saxon
dialects, remnants of <span style="font-style: italic;">galp-</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">> gelp</span> mentioned
</font></font></span></div>
<div><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#008080">>
above came to be reanalized as German <span style="font-style: italic;">gelb</span> 'yellow' and then translated to native
<span style="font-style: italic;">geel</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">gääl</span>) 'yellow'.</font><br></font></span></div></span>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><u>That's
what I tried to show here:</u></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><em><font color="#000080"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L
"Etymology" 2007.06.23 (05) [E] </span><br></font></em></font></span></div>
<div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><em>Some time ago I
myself already made some investigations about this (didn't I post it
here??).</em></font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#000080" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><em>There are two
types of LS 'geel', as I found out and put it into my own
collection:</em></font></span></div>
<div><em></em> </div>
<div>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em><font color="#000080">geel¹<span>
</span><span>
</span>gelb </font></em></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 141.6pt; text-indent: -141.6pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em><font color="#000080">geel²<span>
</span>gestelzt, übertrieben, prahlerisch (<span>v</span>. Alts<span>.</span><span><font color="#ff0000">*</font></span> ‚gelp': Prahlerei
etc.)</font></em></span></p></div></div>
<div> </div>
<div><span><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><font color="#ff0000">*</font><font color="#000000">(<em>Alts. = Old
Saxon)</em></font></font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div align="left"><font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div align="left"> </div>
<font face="Lucida Sans Unicode">Jonny
Meibohm<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <
<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Subject: Etymology</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<div><span><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Sorry, Jonny. Somehow this went by me.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
What I find particularly interesting in the mentioned group of words is that there are signs of the existence of very early associations of "bright (color)," "shiny" and "strident (noise)."</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Gabriele, I totally agree with you regarding the devil and goat thing.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><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></span></div><br>