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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 - 27 May 2008 - Volume 02<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<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);">jonny</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.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"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Idioms"</span><br>
<br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Dear
Lowlanners,</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>these days I found
an interesting idiom I don't understand though I mean to understand each single
word. It is handed down from the Hanseatic merchants of the 14th/15th century
and written in Middle Low Saxon:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span><font size="4"><strong>"vynde boddeme maket vynde gut unde vynde gut maket vynde
boddeme"</strong></font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><strong>vynde:</strong> <em>1.
winds</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><em> 2.
enemies</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><em></em></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><strong>boddeme:</strong> <em>1. the bottom(s) of a of
ship</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span> <em>2.
(a) special type of
ship(s)</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><em> 3. (a) shallow part(s) of the sea, near the coast, in special
used in the Baltic Sea</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><em></em></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><strong>maket:</strong><em> make (3rd pers.
sing/pl)</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><em></em></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><strong>gut:</strong><em> good</em></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><em></em></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><strong>unde:</strong> <em>and</em>
</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Who is able
to solve this conundrum?</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Allerbest<span> and thanks in
award!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left"> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div><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" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: Idiomatica<br><br>Moin, Jonny!<br><br>So far I don't understand it either. I have a feeling we're dealing with word play using <i>vynde</i>.<br><br>But are you sure <i>vynde</i> can be 'winds'? I thought that was <i>wynde</i> (<i>uuynde</i>).<br>
<br>Also, can't <i>vynde</i> also mean 'to find' or (...) find'?<br><br>Finally, I believe that <i>maket</i> can also be the past participial 'made' (<i>gemacht</i>), though that tends to be more <i>gemaket</i>.<br>
<br>Kumpelmenten,<br>Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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