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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" 2010.03.10 (02) [EN]</span><br><br></font><div id=":5e" class="ii gt">
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<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span>Thanks,
Reinhard,</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span></span> </font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span>for your
answer:</span></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 40px;"><font size="2"><span><font color="#008080">According to the <i>Herkunftsduden</i>, <i>Murks</i> and
<i>murksen</i> come from the dialectical German <i>Murk</i> 'clot', 'hunk' >
'boy' (diminutive <i>Murkel</i>). I guess the implication was that work was done
badly by a young apprentice.</font></span></font></div>
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<div><font size="2"><span></span><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">"Jaja - die lieben
Kleinen! Nicht mal morden könn'n se anständig!"</span></font> </div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span></span> </font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span>Sometimes etymology
goes strange ways - and the etymologists have to follow....</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"><span></span> </font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><font size="2">Allerbest!</font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><font size="2"> </font></div>
<div style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" align="left"><font size="2">Jonny Meibohm</font></div>
<div align="left"><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" face="Courier New" size="2">Lower Saxony, Germany</font><font size="2"><br></font></div></div>
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