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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 - 14 October 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Song Contest: <a href="http://lowlands-l.net/contest/">lowlands-l.net/contest/</a> (- 31 Dec. 2007)</span><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_arthurobin2002@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Arthur Jones <<a href="mailto:arthurobin2002@yahoo.com">arthurobin2002@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.13 (08) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Hi Lowlanders, </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">and thanks for solving a
puzzle for me. In finishing up the manuscript of the book, "Children of
the Flood; New Songs for Ancient Gothic Voices", for publication, I was
repeatedly asked how the Goths and other early Germanic tribes managed
to gather huge armies in view of their frequent heavy losses in battle.
The answer, I thought, lay partly in their high birth rate. </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Now, our Ron has confirmed this. Ron schreev, van gisteren, dat:</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"...In
early German verb formation, the suffix /l/ added a frequentive or
iterative aspect, as in "many a frequent (small) action"....e.g.,
jiggle; juggle; piddle; handle; stumble; giggle; hobble; bumble; and
dribble".</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">To think that our ancestors made
special "frequentive" verb forms to express their fervent and urgent
expressions of love. In fact, if we follow that sequence our Ron has
set forth above, we pretty much have our answer. They were just
like us, except perhaps more so.</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thus ensuring that large numbers of young warriors were always available for raiding parties.
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">But I especially like the "jiggle", "handle" , and "dribble" bits. I'll bet they were also the keys to high birth rates.
</div> <div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div> <div>Arthur </div><div><font color="#ff0000" face="arial black">ARTHUR A. JONES</font></div><br><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sassisch@yahoo.com</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></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;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There you have it, folks: vintage Arthur.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">One shudders to consider the possibility of him reading these etymological tea leaves if we extended the list of such verbs, adding for instance "cuddle," "fondle," "tickle," "grapple," ...
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Befuddled,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br>
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