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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 28 March 2008 - Volume 06<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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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;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">LL-L "Words" 2008.03.27 (04) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cognate words are a lot of fun. You would think that a word like
'bread' would be pretty straight forward, what with 'brea' fry, 'brood'
nl., 'brood' afr., 'broot/brood pla., in Low German and 'brauth*', isl,
'breyth*', far. in West Nordic. It is fun to figure out why the Frisian
has no final vowel and to see how the spelling reflects the different
pronunciation. It is also interesting to see that all of the examples
are neuter nouns, except English and Afrikaans, that only have common
gender.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Yes, you would think that a word like 'bread; would be straight
forward. I mean we all have, 'Give us this day our daily bread', but
then again, we can't all 'spend a lot of bread'. Seeing the varied use
of the cognate word is a beautiful refection of the way that living
speakers use language!</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;">
*my font has no isl/far symbol 'eth/ed'.</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;">
Tom</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
man by the water</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
kanakanakai</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: R. F. Hahn <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1206752605_5">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Words<br><br>Hi, busy word gatherers!<br><br>Here's a thought or disclaimer regarding the False Friends section of the new site (<a href="http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/friends.php">http://lowlands-l.net/beyondthepale/friends.php</a>).<br>
<br>Some of the supposed false friends in Low Saxon and Dutch our Ingmar kindly gave us are really no false friends, and I'm not sure about some:<br><br>
Aal - all ; eel*</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Beun - attic ; interloper ??</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Duren - to dare ; to last ??</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Grommen - to snow softly ; to growl ??</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Heil - whole ; hail/welfare ??</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Loos - smart/intelligent ; wrong ??</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Lief - body ; sweet/lovely</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Maal - ugly/annoying ; meal (<i>maal</i> < Fr. <i>mal</i> 'bad', 'ill', cf. NLS <i>mall</i> 'insane')*</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Motten - to mess/spill over ; moths</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Sang - purple ; zang = song</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Schieten - to shit ; to shoot</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Slikken - to snoop ; to swallow ??</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Stoet - bread ; procession, row ??</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;">*(Low Saxon lengthens short vowels before sonorants by rule, and in the Netherlands this is written as though it were genuinely long; e.g. </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">aal</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> = </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">al</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'all', </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">laand</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> = </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">land</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'land', 'country'.)</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;">Anyway, the unmarked examples are not false friends but unrelated sound-alikes. I strongly vote against including those, because that would open us up for a flood of such words, and I find it more educational if we limited it to genuine false friends. So, for now at least I've added this disclaimer:</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">First popularized under the French name <em>faux amis</em>, "false friends" are expressions that are <em>clearly related</em> but have different meanings
in two languages.
(This does not include words that sound alike without being related, the type
for which Teresa Dowlatshahi coined the term "<u><a href="http://www.gocomics.com/shoecabbage/" target="_blank">shoecabbage</a></u>.")<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The cases with ?? are those about which I am not sure and need help with.</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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