<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 09 November 2007 - Volume 04</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">
<span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Maria Elsie Zinsser</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology"
2007.11.08 (03) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi all,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
And suddenly, while reading your posting, Mark, I remembered another</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">relative
to skoor/skor/skêr/skaar, namely 'skoorvoet' (Hy loop
skoorvoeterig rond om moeilikheid te maak" (walking around looking for
trouble), 'skoorsoek' (looking for trouble) as in 'Die ou man is baie
skoorsoekerig as sy tablette opraak".</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Elsie Zinsser
</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">
jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.08 (03) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Beste
Ben,</span></div><div class="Ih2E3d">
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">you
wrote:</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><font size="2"><span>> </span>could this be the
origin of the surname Skarsted?</font></div></div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">It sounds very
Scandinavian, and I guess it has got the same roots. In Old Icelandic we
find <em><strong>'sker'</strong></em>, meaning 'cliff', and in German we have
'die Sch<strong>ae</strong>re', that's an isolated rock sorrounded by water and
also survived in English as 'skerry'.</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font face="Courier New">BTW: all these
words point to Germanic <em>'skur'</em> and mean <em>'to cut'</em> in the widest
sense- in German a pair of scissors is 'die
Sch<strong>e</strong>re'.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left"> </div>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jonny Meibohm<br><br>----------<br><br><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Etymology</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<li>English: O. <i>scéar</i> (sg.) -> <i>scérero ~ </i><i>scéreru </i><i> </i>(pl.) > Mid. <i>schæren ~ sheres </i>(pl.) > Mod. <i>shears</i></li><li>Scots: <i>scéar</i> (sg.) > <i>shear</i></li><li>Frisian: W.
<i>skjirre<br></i></li><li>Saxon: <i>skâra </i>(German <i>Schere</i> >?) > <i>scheyr</i> (<i>Scheer ~ Schier ~ Schiar</i> ~ <i>Schea</i>)</li><li>Dutch: Mid.<i> schaer(e)</i> > Mod. <i>schaar</i></li><li>Dutch: Mid.
<i> </i><i>schaer(e)</i> > Afrikaans <i>skêr<br></i></li><li>Norse:<i> skǽri</i> (pl.) > Icelandic <i>skæri</i>, Norwegian dial. <i>skjæra </i>(fem.) ~ <i>skjære </i>(masc.)<i></i></li><li>German: O. <i>scâra</i> ~
<i>skâr</i> -> <i>skâri</i> (pl.) > Mid. <i>schære </i>> Mod. <i>Schere</i>, Alemannic <i>Schär</i><br></li><li>German: Mid. <i>schære</i> > Yiddish שער <i>sher</i><br>
</li><li>> Slovenian <i>škárje</i>, Croatian <i>škare</i> (cf. Serbian <i>маказе makaze</i>), Sami <i>skár'rit ~ skierat</i> (pl. -<i>(V)t</i>), Estonian <i>käärid</i> (pl. <i>-(i)d</i>)<br></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Cf.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li> cf. Old Saxon <i>sahs</i> 'short sword', 'long knife' > <i>skersahs</i> 'shearing knife'
</li><li>Old English <i>seax, sæx</i>, <i>sex</i> 'short sword', 'long knife'</li><li>Old German <i>sahs</i> 'short sword', 'long knife'</li><li>*<i>sahs</i> 'short sword', 'long knife' + pl. > Danish
<i>sakser</i> (pl. <i>-er</i>), Faeroese <i>saksur</i> (pl. <i>-ur</i>), Finnish <i>sakset</i> (pl. <i>-(V)t</i>)<br></li><li><i>> </i>Old Saxon, Old German <i>sahso</i>, Old English <i>seax(e)</i> 'Saxon'</li>
<li>> Old Norse <i>saks(a)-</i> 'Saxon ...'</li><li>> Estonian, Finnish <i>Saksa</i> 'Saxony' > 'Germany'<br></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Cf. </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Czech <i>nůžky</i> (< "knives"), Slovak <i>nožnice</i>, Russian <i>ножницы </i><i>nožnicy</i>, Ukrainian <i>ножіці </i><i>nožycy</i> ("little knives")
</li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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