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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">wim</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wkv@home.nl">wkv@home.nl</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.29 (03) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">From wim
verdoold</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"><a href="mailto:wkv@home.nl" target="_blank">wkv@home.nl</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">netherlands</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">zwolle</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> city</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Hi,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">Yes that's right, I checked my
dictionary..</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">and also think of the name and meaning of the First
letter in the futhark </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">It s the Fe…(it sounds like f), and it s name
symbolical can be understood as wealth, or cattle.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;" lang="EN-GB">wim</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br>
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Ívison,<br>
<br>
You wrote:</span></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> I was reading something in Dutch and I
ran into a word that is very</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">similar to English "Fee". It's vee,
which means cattle. The fact is that</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">there is a connection between these two
words. If I'm not wrong, the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">word "FEE" in OE (Old English) meant
cattle. As in Portuguese the Latin</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">word for those animals became our word
"pecunia" which means money. As</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">the old comunities used animals as money,
it's not surprising that the</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">word fee which came from Old English feoh,
became fee - money you pay for</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">a service.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> There's another word in English
related to money, it's salary (salt).</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">The word salary comes from Latin Salarium,
money given to soldiers.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Quite so. These are the types of interesting discoveries etymology offers.<br>
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Low Saxon has <i>vey</i> (<i>Veh</i>) [fɛˑɪ], German <i>Vieh</i> [fiː], all meaning
'lifestock', as does Dutch <i>vee</i>.<br>
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Old English: </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">feoh</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">, <i>fioh</i>, <i>féo</i><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Old Frisian: <i>fia</i><br>
Old Saxon: <i>fehu</i><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Old German: <i>fihu</i>,
<i>fehu<br>
</i>Old Norse: <i>fé</i><br>
Each one means 'lifestock', 'property' and 'money'<br>
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Gothic: <i>faihu</i><br>
This means only 'property', 'money'<br><br>
Sanskrit: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Mangal;" lang="HI">पशु</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">paśu<br>
</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">This one means
'cattle'<br>
It is in fact etymologically related to Latin <i>pecū</i>, which means that all
of the above are related.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ívison, you seem to be making a lot of progress, considering that you can read Dutch now.<br><br>
Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron</span></p></div>