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=========================================================================<br></div><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(91, 16, 148);">orville crane</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:manbythewater@hotmail.com">manbythewater@hotmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.03.15 (01) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Dear Lowlanders,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Leif Ericsson traveled from Greenland to North America a thousand years
ago and took took his expedition past a stony island called
"Helluland", meaning "Slab Land". This is thought to be Baffin Island,
I believe.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
The Faroese verb, 'hella' means: 1. to slant, slope, bend, bow; 2) to lean, to be in a leaning, sloping position.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
The Far. noun, 'hella' means; 1. bedrock, rocky ground, fixed rock; 2) flat rocky beach; 3) flat stone, stone flag</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
The Far. adjective, 'hellutur' means ground or terrain with flat rocks.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
man by it wetter</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);">Diederik Masure</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com">didimasure@hotmail.com</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 "Etymology" 2008.03.15 (01) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Ron wrote: </span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial">This seems to belong to the "hall" group, also German <i>hehlen</i> 'to hide'.</font><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;">
<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial">Dutch 'helen' means "to sell stolen goods", and derrived from that "heler", a person who buys and then sells stolen stuff... <br>
Related?</font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" color="#888888">
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Diederik</font><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: 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;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi, Diederik!</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;">Sorry. I meant to write that German </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><u>ver</u>hehlen</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> means 'to hide/cover up (e.g. the truth)'. I consider </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hehlen</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> semi-defunct, but at least its original meaning, too, was 'to hide', 'to cover up'. It's related to Dutch </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">helen</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> as well as to Old Saxon, Old English and Old German </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">helan</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. Modern German </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hehler</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> has the same meaning as Dutch </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">heler</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. My theory is that early on this got specialized where "hiding" or "covering up" involved illicit trade, probably secret hiding places for (stolen) goods.</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;">This family of words includes German </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(ver)hüllen </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'to cover', 'to envelop', 'to shroud', originally 'to hide' (with the nominal derivative </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hülle</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'envelop', 'sheath'), related to Old English </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hyllan</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Old German </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hullan</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> and Gothic </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">huljan</i><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;">And, yes, the "hall" branch of words, too, belongs to it (< *</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">halla</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">). Part of this family is Latin </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">cella</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'chamber' and Sanskrit शाला </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">śālā </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'shelter', 'house', 'hut'.</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;">Not only that, but -- and now hang on to your socks! -- the "hell" branch as well! Gothic </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">halja</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Old Norse </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hel</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (and Hel, the goddess of death), Old German </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hell(i)a</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Old Saxon </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hel</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hellia</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Old Low Franconian </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hella</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Old Frisian </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">helle</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, Old English </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hell</i><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;">At the root of all of the above is supposed to be Indo-European *</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">k̂el-</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. My personal hunch is that this originally referred to living and hiding in caverns, hence a connection with slopes and rocks and also with (subterranean) hell. Furthermore, it is very well possible that English "hole" and "hollow" belong to this.</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;">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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