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<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  -  15 July 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_douglas@nb.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Douglas G. Wilson" <<a href="mailto:douglas@nb.net">douglas@nb.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.07.18 (02) [E/German]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> > Ron used the word 'maskee' as in 'Maskee you likie' the other day ....</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But I suppose the default hypothesis must be that "maskee" is from</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Portuguese (or Spanish) "mas que"?
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">At least the hypothesis seems superficially plausible ... and</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">venerable ... e.g.:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.meirapenna.org/publicacoes/conf/2005/tres_visitas_a_xanghai.htm" target="_blank">
http://www.meirapenna.org/publicacoes/conf/2005/tres_visitas_a_xanghai.htm</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/inst/iaa/anglophonie/second/black.htm" target="_blank">
http://www.fask.uni-mainz.de/inst/iaa/anglophonie/second/black.htm</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:510.hobson" target="_blank">
http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.1:1:510.hobson</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=bpsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=maskee+%22mas+que%22" target="_blank">
http://books.google.com/books?id=bpsAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA144&dq=maskee+%22mas+que%22</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=3qk-p5hKuccC&pg=PA495&ots=PtWZrb0MJA&dq=maskee+%22mas+que%22&sig=XRhnFRiUNvgXo342BGF_vY1_d30" target="_blank">
http://books.google.com/books?id=3qk-p5hKuccC&pg=PA495&ots=PtWZrb0MJA&dq=maskee+%22mas+que%22&sig=XRhnFRiUNvgXo342BGF_vY1_d30</a><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">-- Doug Wilson</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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