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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(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;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Morphology" 2009.06.06 (03) [DE-EN]</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 Heather Rendall </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk" target="_blank">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Ron/Reinhard wrote: re Tschüß  (This happens to be of foreign origin too, assumed to be from French <i>adieu</i> , though I still wonder about the <i>-s</i> and if it might not come from Spanish <i>adios</i> , possibly loaned during the Spanish-Dutch conflicts.) </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I had always assumed that it came from the English " Cheers!" which would explain the 's'.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sadly for that theory we say Cheerio! to say Goodbye  and "Cheers!" as a toast when we drink. </p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">But "Cheers" is also used as a kind of "Thank you"</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The sounds are so close that maybe there is an older use of "Cheers" instead of "Cheerio" that it derives from.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Possible????</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">best wishes</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Heather from
a (delightfully) rain drenched Worcestershire after 5 days of
temperatures higher than those in the Mediterranean !</p><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">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>> <br>
Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Etymology</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;">Hi, Heather!</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;">You mentioned this theory on an earlier occasion. I must say that I find something "attractive" about it, considering long-time contacts with English among sailors of Northern Germany.</span> Also, what I like is that you dare to stretch etymologically.<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The problem with it seems to be that apparently </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">tschüß</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> (which, as you know, came to be imported into German) appears to come from </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">adschüß.</i><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Now ... let's mix this up some more and ask if conversely "cheers!" for "good-bye" might have been "inspired" by </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">tschüß!</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">, aided by "cheers!" for "thanks!"...</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, where we got tired of the tropical heat and sent it off to Europe</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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