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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(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</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" 2008.04.07 (03) [E]<br></span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Ron/Reinhard wrote 'Apparently this referred to the sweet reddish brown type of resin . Some allege that the word goes back to Sanskrit <i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">lak<span lang="ZH-CN">ṣ</span>a</span></i><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> लक्ष 'hundred thousand' in reference to the multitudes of insects that tease the resin out of trees.</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Could
the OHG lah which gave Lache = Grenzmarken Holz oder Stein lachen
= to score / scratch into bark / stone and Lachbaum / Lachstein be
connected here?</span></font></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="3"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Heather</span></font></p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br><font size="2">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Etymology</font><br>
<font size="2"><br>Heh! Nice one, Heather! </font><font size="2">In actual fact, I think you may be onto something here.</font><br><font size="2"><br></font></span></font><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="Arial" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><font size="2">I did some more research and found that we may be talking about two different Sanskrit words here, or about one. I'm not sure.</font><br>
</span></font></font><ul style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><font size="2">लाक्षा <i>lākṣā</i> 'dye', 'lac (obtained from the cochineal or a similar insect as well as from the resin of the Ludh tree)' <br>
</font></li><li><font size="2">लक्ष् <i>lakṣ-</i> 'to see', 'to observe', 'to perceive', 'to recognize', 'to know', 'to notice', 'to characterize', 'to mark', 'to define', 'to indicate', 'to direct', 'to aim', 'to be marked'</font></li>
<li><font size="2">लक्षक </font><font size="2"><i>lakṣaka</i> 'indicating', 'hinting'</font></li><li><font size="2">लक्षक </font><font size="2"><i>lakṣaka</i> 'hundred thousand'</font></li><li><font size="2">लक्ष <i>lakṣa</i> 'mark', 'sign', 'token'</font></li>
<li><font size="2">लक्षण </font><font size="2"><i>lakṣaṇa</i> 'mark', 'sign', 'symbol', 'token', 'characteristic', 'attribute', 'quality', 'form', 'species', 'kind', 'sort', 'aim', 'goal', 'scope', 'object', 'observation', 'sight'</font></li>
<li><font size="2">लाक्षण </font><font size="2"><i>l</i></font><font size="2"><i>ā</i></font><font size="2"><i>kṣaṇa</i> '</font>relating to or acquainted with characteristic signs or marks'</li><li>लक्षणक <font size="2"><i>l</i></font><font size="2"><i>a</i></font><font size="2"><i>kṣaṇa</i> 'mark', 'sign'</font></li>
<li><font size="2">लक्षणसंनिवेज़ <i>lak</i></font><i><font size="2">ṣ</font><font size="2">a</font><font size="2">ṇ</font></i><font size="2"><i>asaṃniveza</i> 'the impression of a mark', 'branding', 'stigmatizing'</font></li>
<li><font size="2">लक्ष्मन् </font><font size="2"><i>lakṣman</i> </font><font size="2">'mark', 'sign', 'symbol', 'token', 'characteristic'</font></li><li><font size="2">लक्ष्मी </font><font size="2"><i>lakṣmī</i> </font><font size="2">'mark', 'sign', 'symbol', 'token', 'sight', 'beauty', 'loveliness', 'grace', 'charm', 'splendor', 'luster' -- also the name of the deity of fortune and beauty<br>
</font></li></ul><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And there are many, many more.</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;">We need to ascertain the correspondences of Sanskrit </span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2">क्ष</font><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><font style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><i>kṣ</i> in Europe. If there is the said connection, then there ought to be one with <i>ch</i> in the German group and one with <i>k</i> or <i>kk</i> in the Lowlands.<br>
<br>What is the origin of Low Saxon <i>lakmayern</i> (<i>lackmeiern</i>) 'to fool', 'to deceive'?<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br></font><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">