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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">===========================================</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" align="center"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="PT-BR">L
O W L A N D S - L - 02 March 2009 - Volume 03</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">Â </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From: <span class="ep8xu"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Mark
Dreyer</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net</a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Etymology"
2009.03.02 (01) [D/E]</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">Â </span></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Beste
Roger:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Subject:
LL-L Etymology</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You wrote:</span></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">On the
website of the Belgian newspaper het Laatste Nieuws an article from the Sunday
Telegraph is translated/summarized, stating that the origing of <strong>cricket</strong> is [West-] Flemish (as spoken
at the French border). The origin refers apparently to "<strong>met de krik ketsen</strong>",
krik being the <strong>sheperd's crook or
sheep-hook</strong> (in modern Dutch: herdersstaf, herdersstok; in
German: Hirtsenstab; in French: houlette, baton de berger) &c.</span><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></div><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">
<br>
Fascinating point you've raised here: A good string...</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Herewith my
pennyworth:</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From my
Chambers etymological, 'A bend or anything bent, such as a shepherd's staff or
a bishop's crozier... from a root common to Teutonic & Celtic as in Welsh
'crwg,' = a hook, Icelandic 'krokr' & Dutch 'kroke' (never heard of <strong>that</strong> myself).</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have seen
an old print of an early form of cricket, played not with the bat we know, but
something more like a hockey stick.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">While we're
about it what about the Afrikaans & Nederlands 'kruk' = 'crutch', the
latter plainly the Anglo-Saxon cognate?</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Many games
of today are a survival of an almost endless variety of both solitary &
team sports dating back no doubt to prehistoric times, all played with a hooked
club. Consider the Scottish sport 'golf' played with what the Afrikaner, &
how many other LL-L folks, would call a 'kolf' = 'club'.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Anyone for
ice-hockey, hey, Canadiens? There is an etching of Hollanders playing it in the
17th Century. The Tuareg play a form of hockey they call (English orthograpgy,
I think) 'gerubgeh'. with a club of such a shape nobody in the World wouldn't
recognise it or its purpose. I have no reason to suppose they learned it from
anyone else.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Cuchulainn
killed the blacksmith Colainn's dog with one such club when he was a
child, which to my memory makes it the the only incident in record that it was
actually used as a weapon, or for protection. Other than that it strikes me it
was only ever a sporting instrument, not a tool of war.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One more
thing in closing, I'm not surprised all these diversions came to the English at
second hand. Through a significant block of the Middle Ages the menfolk were
forbidden to play anything but longbow!</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Â </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Yrs,</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mark<br></span></p>
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