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L O W L A N D S - L - 20 April 2010 - Volume 03<br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi"> </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
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Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi">LL-L "Etymology"</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Beste Henno & Roger,<br>
<br>
You wrote:<br>
<br>
> In connection with nouns and verbs having undergone umlaut,
you wrote:<br>
><br>
> ---So ke:ma < *kemba < Old Germanic *kambian, probably. It's a very
typical word, combining the old lengthening before mb, with the palatalisation
of the vowel (e> ie) and breaking. Dutch has "kammen", so no
lengthening or Umlaut-relic. German has "kämmen", so umlauted, as in
Frisian. I'd expect similar forms in Low Saxon varieties. Probably Dutch also
had umlauted forms, but many of those alternations where later equalized by
analogy: the noun is "kam", so the verb "should" be
"kammen", not expected "kemmen". Of course relics also
exist in Dutch ("omhelzen" (to embrace) next to "hals"
(neck), "steden" (cities) as plural of "stad", etc), but
they are far more common the more East one goes.<br>
> The noun in Frisian has no umlaut, but does have lenghtening:
"kaam" (comb), vs Dutch "kam". Also in "laam"
(lamb) we have this, plural has short a: "lammen". (note that West
Frisian lost all -er plurals: we just say "aaien" etc. In Saterlandic
Frisian and North Frisian we still see -er plurals).<br>
><br>
> In Getelands (South-East Brabant) we have
a noun with umlaut for 'lam': lemme. The umlaut is the result of the
addition of the augmentative-suffix. The original word does noet exist anymore.<br>
<br>
<br>
Same here in Western Brabant.
"Lemmen" is the original dialect word for "lamb". Also in
family name "Lemmens", opposed to western variant
"Lammens". Compare Northern German "Lemke".<br>
<br>
True, the family name usually refers to a first name "Lambrecht"
(< lant + berht), but may also hint at the easy-going character of a person
(~ gentle as a lamb). Note that the expansion of "Lambert" was due to
early Flemish export, mainly because of the popularity of Saint Lambert of
Maastricht.<br>
<br>
Regarding "kam", I'd like to add that the old diminituve is
"kemmeken" in Brabantish. The word can regularly be found as the name
for a former brewery, because in the olden days, a brew kettle was suspended
from a comb-like rack over an open fire. The device, a chimney-crook (E) or
haal (D), thus became archetypical for a brewery:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/y7sv4bd" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/y7sv4bd</a><br>
<br>
Kind greetings,<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br>
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</span></span></p>
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