<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 - 30 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_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.31 (01) [E/S]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span>Hi Ron & Co:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span>Subject: L-Lowlands "Etymology"</span><span class="q"><br><br>Hi, Mark! The
<span style="font-style: italic;">-dwaal</span> in <span style="font-style: italic;">verdwaal</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">is<span style="font-style: italic;"></span></span> a
cognate of "dwell," isn't it?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I certainly think so. Here is one of the cases where English is richer than
Afrikaans in an ancient survival. Mind you, we have kept 'woon' & its
cognates in all the other Lowlands languages including the Anglo Saxon
& Modern English hasn't.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">By the way, in this delightful other string I seem to know something
suspiciously like it from 'Mother Goose' I think,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="center">'Froggy would a wooing go,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="center">whether his mother would let him or no.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="center">"Heih ho," says Froggy.'</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left">or whatever, with the refrain,</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="center">'Cock me carry, Kitty alone</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="center">Kitty alone & I...'</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left">I shouldn't bother to save it. These versions are so much more
fun.</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left"><font size="2">Yrs,</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left"><font size="2">Mark<br><br>----------<br><br></font>From: <span id="_user_ezinsser@icon.co.za" style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Elsie Zinsser</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg">
<<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.10.31 (01) [E/S]<br><p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Hi all,</span>
</font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Maar Mark,
what about "om in 'n dwaal te wees"- to wander aimlessly/ be mentally lost? </span></font></span></p>
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I am sure
it is related to dwell / verdwaald.</span></font></span></p><span class="sg">
<p><span><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="DE">Elsie Zinsser</span></font></span></p></span>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">jonny
</span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"> <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal;" class="lg"></span><br>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology"</div><br><div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Beste
Lowlanners,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>right now I found
the solution for that weird change of the meaning of 'to dwell' throughout
the time from O.E. to modern LS and Dutch.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>It happened during
the crusades when the Knights of the Cross made their terrible visits in
Mideast or the Baltic coasts. We must remember: that nasty gang was a mixture of
(very nobel!!) people from all over Europe, and so it was inevitable
that they had some difficulties to understand each single word of the
language of their next brother in crime.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Soldiers cannot
fight continously and at everytime, they have to rest.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>So the
black Ritter van Ravensnest told his co-leader, the famous Knight of
Hollywood: "Latt uns ver<strong><em>weilen</em></strong>, Lordy, recht an
tiesem plaze!". And his very British neighbour said: "Oh yeah! Let us build
a <em><strong>toon</strong></em> mith our<strong><em> shiel[d]s
</em></strong>and tus<em><strong> dwellon</strong></em> the fiend!".
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>So- one of the
junior knaves from Frisia, Hendrijk de Wijke, (who could listen to
their talk) got order to establish the camp and soon had to experience how fast
the older knights became besotted by the heavy southern wine or the
Lithunian vodka- they started to
<em><strong>dwyljen</strong></em>!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>A little while
later one of the young Scandinavian knights (his name may have been Harald
Swoerdfishing) saw the old warriors move wobbling fore and back, and he asked a
neighbour from Lower Saxony (Henninck van de Deyken) if they possibly had eaten
any <em><strong>dvael</strong></em>baers. "Joo!" said that one, "de
<em><strong>dweelt</strong></em> as 'n Bär de Jordbeer'n
gaddeert!".</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>And from now
on the whole crew knew what to do and what would happen if anyone
used the word "<em><strong>Weilen!</strong></em>",
"<em><strong>Dwell!</strong></em>" or
"<em><strong>Dweelt!</strong></em>".</span></div>
<div> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div><br>