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===========================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">From: Hannelore Hinz <a href="mailto:HanneHinz@t-online.de" target="_blank">HanneHinz@t-online.de</a></font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2009.10.24 (01)
[EN]</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Good morning dear friends!</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Â </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Please, to look up:</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://www.verwandt.de/forum/post15414.html" target="_blank">http://www.verwandt.de/forum/post15414.html</a></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Stammbaum" target="_blank">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorlage:Stammbaum</a></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Good luck!</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Kind regards,</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Hanne</font></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><font size="2">Schwerin Germany</font></div><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(121, 6, 25);">Jonny</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">LL-L "Etymology" 2009.10.23 (01) [EN]</span><br><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Reinhard
wrote:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>...</span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);" class="im">
<div><span>The word is "doit", sometimes
spelled "doyt" in Scots.<br><br>It has two basic
meanings:<br><br>(1) very small, insignificant
article, piece or part<br>(2) coin with lowest possible
value</span></div>
<div><span></span>Â </div>
</div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span><font face="Courier New"><div class="im"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Apparently the second meaning
came first. It was a Dutch coin of extremely little value, half a farthing (or
an eighth of a </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">stuiver</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">) that was official currency in
Dutch-speaking areas and in some other areas along the Lower Rhine. In Modern
Dutch it is spelled </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">duit</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">, in Middle Dutch </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">duyt, deuyt, doyt, deyt</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">. With the same meaning it is
also know in German and is spelled </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Deut</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> there (and has the same
pronunciation as does Scots </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">doit</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">). I have never come
across it in Low Saxon of Germany and would expect it to be *</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">Düüt</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);"> (Dutch spelling *</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">duut</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">) if it existed. So far I have
not been able to find it in Middle Saxon either.</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">...</span></font></span></div>
<div><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Very
interesting!</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>In Eastern Prussian
Low Saxon we find <strong><em>"Dittke"</em></strong> in exactly the
same meanings - probably an heritage of the Western settlers (Dutch, Flemish,
Rhine area, Westphalia).</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span>Â </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span></span> <span>Something to
speculate:</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>In the special
dialect of the Wurster Low Saxon (a strongly Frisian influenced variety, still
spoken near Bremerhaven) "</span>Doik’r<span>!</span><span>"</span> <span>is used as
an exclamation, as a swear and means</span>Â <span>"devil!" (</span>Teufel<span>!</span><span>). This could be
a related word to avoid calling "his" name.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span>Just worth a
<em>dittke</em>....</span></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class="MsoNormal">Â </p></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Allerbest!</div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left">Â </div><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" color="#888888">
<div align="left">Jonny Meibohm</div>
<div align="left">Lower Saxony,
Germany</div></font></div></div><br><br><br>
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