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From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br>
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Hey, Wes!<br>
<br></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Yesterday you asked:</span></span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
"taking a dekko at something" is an expression I'd only met
previously in</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
various late-era post Twentieth C--European Civil War (c. 1014-1945) English</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
penny-dreadfuls and only thought it could exist in that context. I heard
it</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
recently on the radio in relation to a messy traffic jam in Auckland City.</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
I assume it's Hindi/Urdu-derived? Through (Sanskrit) drsht - to see?
(Though</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
I have also considered it might be Romany-derived. I have no real idea.)</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Anyone got any better ideas?</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">
Wesley Parish</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
<br>
Since no-one else responded, please let me do the honors.<br>
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Apparently you were on the right track.<br>
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"Dekko" comes from Hindustani <i>dekho</i> (Hindi </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">देखो, Urdu </span><span dir="rtl" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="AR-SA">دیکھو</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">'look!', 'see!', imperative of <i>dekhnā</i>
(Hindi </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">देख्ना, Urdu </span><span dir="rtl" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="AR-SA">دیکھنا</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span>)</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">'to look', 'to see', cf. Panjabi <i>dekhna</i>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";" lang="PA">ਡੇਖ੍ਨ</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Raavi;" lang="PA">,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="PA"> Bengali </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">dēkhā</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";" lang="BN">দেখা,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="BN"> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Nepali</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"> </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">dēkhu</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">देख्नु</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI"></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">, </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> Romany <i>dik(h)</i> 'to look'</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">< Sanskrit </span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ḍ</span></i><i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">ekhu </span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="HI">डेखु</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">; cf. Farsi <i>dīkan</i>
</span><span dir="rtl" style="font-family: Arial;" lang="AR-SA">دیدن</span><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;" lang="AR-SA"><span dir="ltr"></span><span dir="ltr"></span> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">'to look', 'to see', probably from Proto-Persian *<i>diħ-</i>.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</span></p>
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