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L O W L A N D S - L - 30 July 2008 - Volume 03<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"></span></span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Arthur Jones</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:arthurobin2002@yahoo.com">arthurobin2002@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.30 (01) [E]</span><br>
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From: Arthur Jones <<a href="mailto:arthurobin2002@yahoo.com" target="_blank">arthurobin2002@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.07.30 (01) [E]<br>
To: <a href="mailto:lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM" target="_blank">lowlands.list@GMAIL.COM</a><br>
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 10:10 AM</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Hello Laglanners,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Finally, finally, I have caught our Ron out on a limb. I shall now
commence shaking said limb as follows:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Ron would have it that, in Gothic, <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">faihu
</span></em>meant only fee or money. Not true. It meant primarily <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">cattle</span></em>, and the other meanings came
later. See Koebler, Streitberg, Tunstall, or any other dictionary compilations.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Interestingly, the English <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">fee </span></em>also
means quality or nature of title to land: e.g., fee simple, fee tail (mix of
English and Norman French: <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">tailee, </span></em>meaning
curtailed or of a finite nature.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">While on the subject, would anyone out there in Lowlandsland weigh in
with a reading on the following:</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">English "<em><span style="font-family: Arial;">in cahoots with" </span></em>is
a pejorative meaning closely conspiratorial. Some have opined that it
originated in Quebecois from a word for "hut", "trapper's
cabin". I disagree, particularly because of the Gothic phrase, "<em><span style="font-family: Arial;">in gahugds mith", </span></em>meaning "of a
common or shared thought or idea". The <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">ga-
</span></em>prefix was, as in modern Germanic languages, a collective, as in
Gemeente or Gesellschaft. The stem element, <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">hugds-,
</span></em>meant "thought". We see the same word in <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hugin</span></em>, one of Odin's two ravens, <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Hugin </span></em>and <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">Munin, </span></em>meaning "thought" and "memory".</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Arthur</span></div>
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