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<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 28 July 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_kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Kevin and Cheryl Caldwell <<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.07.27 (04) [D/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">"Sot" may have
meant "a foolish person" at one time, but these days it only refers to a
chronic drunkard, and "besotted" means "drunk". I've never heard them
used any other way, and I'm totally unfamiliar with the verb "to sot".</span></font></p><p style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="black" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Kevin Caldwell</span>
</font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 0, 153); margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="q">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> </span><br>
Subject: Etymology<br>
<br></span><span class="q">
I further guess that <i><span style="font-style: italic;">zot</span></i> is
related to English "sot" (a foolish person) as well as
"besotted" (smitten, infatuated), and a few Low Saxon have <i><span style="font-style: italic;">Sot</span></i> in the sense of 'fool' also. And
there's the English verb "to sot" (to make a fool [of
someone]). Apparently, these come from Old French <i><span style="font-style: italic;">sot</span></i> (fem. <i><span style="font-style: italic;">sote</span></i>
) which is on unknown origin.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span></span></font></p><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" size="2">----------<br><br></font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="q">
<font size="2">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> </span></font><br><font size="2">
Subject: Etymology</font><br><br><font size="2">That's apparently correct, Kevin. The meaning "fool"</font></span></span></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="q"><font size="2">is older (attested since 1000) and now largely obsolete. The meaning "drunkard"</font></span></span></font><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="q"><font size="2"> (<span style="font-style: italic;">OED</span></font> "</span></span></font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">One who dulls or stupefies himself with drinking; one who commonly or habitually drinks to excess; a soaker")
</span><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="q"><font size="2"> is attested since 1592 ("The Danes are bursten-bellied sots, that are to be confuted with nothing but Tankards or quart pots." ...).
<br><br>I understand that nowadays it's still a matter of dialect and idiom. For instance, in the expression "poor (old) sot" it seems to mean "fool" rather than "drunkard."<br><br>Rehards,
<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></font></span></span></font>
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