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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.07.01 (03) [EN]</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<div>Dear Marcus, Ron, Iwe, All:</div>
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<div>Subject: LL-L" Etymology"</div>
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<div>I readily concede that מכר means 'acquaintance',
'companion' in Hebrew, & that later discovery of the word may have lent
force to the older word 'makker', but I feel with Marcus that the word has an
Indo-Germanic origin rather than Semetic.</div>
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<div>However, Marcus, there never was a time throughout Europe
since the Romans sorted out the Carthaginians that Jews didn't have a small but
emphatic presence in the landward & seaward carrying trade. Many if not most
of Henry the Navigator's navigators & cartographers were Jews or later
Marranos, <u>&</u> most of his sailors were North-Sea fishermen from his
Spanish Netherlands Possessions. We should not suppose that either came to the
party empty-handed, or went away empty-handed. Report hath it that Columbus's
captain of the 'Pinta' in his first voyage of discovery was a Jew, I forget his
name for a moment.</div>
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<div>What about the old word 'makeless' in English (if it was
not a literary invention). I recall a children's yarn about a unicorn, very
good, in which the prediction or prophecy featured, very proper, that the
guiding light of the tale would be a 'maid that is 'makeless' that is, a virgin.
& somebody mentioned the word 'match' in English</div>
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<div>Yrs,</div>
<div>Mark<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">E Zinsser</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:ezinsser@icon.co.za">ezinsser@icon.co.za</a>></span></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.07.01 (06) [EN]<br><br></span>Hi all,<br><br>Thanks, Luc, so my Afr. makelaar ('broker') is really pimping off somebody else's <br>financial products to me?<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Elsie Zinsser<br><br>----------<br><br>From: John Le Grange <<a href="mailto:dad1943@live.co.za">dad1943@live.co.za</a>><br>
Subject: Correction<br><br>Having been away for a few days I only now have read through the discussions of the Steelyard.<br><br>Truely we cover many and varied topics. Gratias tibi ago.<br><br>However I noticed that Ron quoted from the Oxford English dictionary-<br>
<br><div style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">[ME. a. OF. trone (Godef.) -- L. <i>trulina</i>, a. Gr. <i>τρυτάνη </i>balance, pair of scales.]<br></div><br>If
this was not a typo then the editors of the dictionary have made an
error. There is no word trulina in classical Latin Ref Lewis and Short
- A Latin Dictionary. The word should have been trutina (a scale or
balance) which agrees with the Greek. <br><br>John le Grange<br><br>----------<br><br><span style="font-size: 11pt;" lang="NL">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Etymology<br><br>Thanks, John.<br><br>I copied and pasted it from the <i>OED</i>. At the time, <i>trutina</i> crossed my mind, but I was too lazy to pursue it ...<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</span><br>
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