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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(91, 16, 148);">Roger Hondshoven</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:rhondshoven@yahoo.com">rhondshoven@yahoo.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" 2009.08.10 (06) [EN]<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Hi Luc,</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 wrote: </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 191, 191); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I've
heard older people use the word "som-wijlen" (pronounced "soemaëlen"),
meaning "sometimes". "Dik" in "dik-wijls" probably connects with
"thick" (E) indeed. </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;">Getelands has 'dek', sometimes 'dekkes', meaning "often". Middledutch had </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dicke wile, dicwile, </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">from </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">dicke </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"frequent". Archaic is 'somtewijle', nowadays almost only 'van tijd'</span><br style="color: rgb(0, 191, 191); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 191, 191); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Roger Hondshoven</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Diest (East-Brabant) Belgium</span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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