<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 - 20 January 2008 - Volume 04
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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);">
Luc Hellinckx</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</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"<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beste Ron & Elsie,</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;">
Ron wrote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<blockquote style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" type="cite">Elsie,
<i>tugtig</i> in Afrikaans is
interesting and looks like a German loan (<i>tüchtig</i> 'capable',
'competent', 'hard-working', 'good', 'strongly', 'severely') because of
the /t/, which is a German derivation from West Germanic /d/. The Low
Saxon cognate with the same meaning is <i>d</i><i>üchtig</i>, Middle English
still used <i>
doughty</i> in
the same sense (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-m-verse1-roman.php" target="_blank">http://lowlands-l.net/anniversary/english-m-verse1-roman.php</a>
), and Dutch has <i>duchtig</i> for 'thorough',
'severe', 'strict'.<br>
</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I rather see a connection with Older Dutch "tuchtig" (~ German
"züchtig"), said of a person showing discipline. "Tuchtig" (D) ~
German "ziehen" (hence the symbolic meaning: tied properly), whereas
"duchtig" (D) ~ German "taugen". Semantically, these words somewhat
interfere, but etymologically, they don't.</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;">
Kind greetings,</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;">
Luc Hellinckx</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;">
PS: At the same time, it wouldn't have surprised me to learn that
"züchtig"
and "tüchtig" would both have become German export words.
Gründlichkeit, you know <span> ;-)<br><br></span></span>