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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Diederik Masure</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:didimasure@hotmail.com">didimasure@hotmail.com</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="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.04.28 (01) [E]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks a lot! I'll try to interpret this list as well as possible and
pick the most useful forms/spellings (altho that's a little bit
corrupt, isn't it?)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Greets, </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Diederik</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;">----------</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: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.04.28 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><br>
</span><p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">from Heather Rendall <a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">re Diederik's etymologies</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron gave the following:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">weinig ('little/few') wenig [weynig] (id.)</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I've just looked up English 'weeny' in the OED and it gives: </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">WEENY (colloquial, dialect) very small XVIII (Grose) f wee + -ny cf TINY TEENY</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I am now wondering whether the OED is right. Maybe it derives from 'wenig/ weinig?</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">What do you think?</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Heather</p>
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Worcester UK</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;">----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>> <br>
Subject: Etymology<br><br>Interesting, Pat!<br><br>I always assumed that "weeny" was related to "wee", but apparently they aren't related.<br><br>Now I believe that there is a connection between <i>wenig</i> (in most Low Saxon </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dialects with a diphthong: </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">weynig</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">) is related to Old English </span><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crhahn%5CLocal%20Settings%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>
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</style><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">hwōn</span> </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">~ </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">wan</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> 'little (amount)' and it's umlauted derivative </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">hwœ́ne </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'a little'.</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;">This jives phonologically. Old English long "a" (</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">á</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> > Modern English [ou]) very often corresponds to Old Saxon long "e" (> Low Saxon [ei] ~ [ai]) and also to Scots long "e" ([e:]); e.g.</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;">OE = ModE = Sc = OS = LS </span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">stán = stone = stane = st</i><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crhahn%5CLocal%20Settings%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>
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</style><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ê</span>n = steyn </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(Steen ~ Stein)</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">bán = bone = bane = b</i><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ên = beyn</span></i><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(Been ~ Bein)</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span><br>
</i><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">án = one = ane = </i><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">ên</span> = eyn</i><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></i><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">(een ~ ein)</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;">So at least theoretically </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"></span></i> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" rel="File-List" href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Crhahn%5CLocal%20Settings%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><style>
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</style><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">hwōn</span> </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">~ </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">wan</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> could be related to </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">weyn(ig</i><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;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Seattle, USA</span>
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