<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;">L O W L A N D S - L - 28 November 2007 - Volume 07
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<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);">
Heiko Evermann</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:heiko.evermann@gmx.de">heiko.evermann@gmx.de</a>></span></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: Lexikon<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Moin tosamen,</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;">noch een Fraag ut de plattdüütsche Wikipedia:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
gifft dat en plattdüütsch Woort för den "Wellensittich"?</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;">
Hartlich Gröten,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888"><br>Heiko Evermann</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><span></span> </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">Lexicon<br><br>Moin, Heiko!<br><br>Bi mi is heet dat "Buttjer" or "Buttje". In Hamborg un Kuntree heet dat ook so in't Missingsch, hangt sachs mit Ingelsch
<i>budgerigar (budgie</i>) tosamen. Later w</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">öör </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">dat denn in Noordd</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
üütschland de bekanntste"Vör"-Naam för Vagels.</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;">
Folks, Heiko asks if there's a Low Saxon word for "budgerigar" (= American English "parakeet").</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;">I told him that in my "book" it's </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><i>Buttjer </i>(["bUtS3`]) or <i>Buttje
</i><i> </i>(["bUtSe]), also in Missingsch of Hamburg. I assume that the most used "personal" name for the birds in Northern German is derived from this, and that it in turn is derived from English "budgerigar" ~ "budgie". The origin is in a so far undetermined Australian language, possibly Gamilaraai (
</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">gidjirrigaa</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">).<br><br>I further assume that the birds were introduced to Germany via Hamburg by sailors with ties to British merchant ships that frequented Australian ports. They are very popular in Germany (the German name being
<i>Wellensittich</i> "undulated parakeet").</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;">
Kumpelmenten,</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;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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