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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net">kevin.caldwell1963@verizon.net</a>></span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Etymology" 2010.04.25 (01)
[DE-EN-NDS-NL]</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I think I missed the
beginning of this whole conversation, but I thought I’d throw this out there:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">English has
“rootin’-tootin’” with the meaning, “rowdy, wild, uproarious, boisterous,
raucous.” <span style=""> </span>I remember an old Bugs Bunny
cartoon in which Yosemite Sam describes himself as “the rootin’-tootin’-est,
six-shootin’-est hombre north, south, east, AND west of the Pecos!”</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">There was also a Gene Autry
movie with the title “Rootin’ Tootin’ Rhythm.”</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The term almost always seems
to be associated with cowboys and the American West.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Kevin Caldwell</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Laurel, MD</span></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 96); font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Jonny</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<</span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</span></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2010.04.24 (01) [DE]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Beste Lowlanners,</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">back to my posting about LS </span><em><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">"rütentütig",</span></b></em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"> Dutch spelling perhaps <strong><i>"rutentutig",</i></strong>
Middle Low Saxon possibly </span><em><b><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">"rytentytig".</span></b></em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Meanwhile I made some more thoughts about the meaning and have
to improve my translation which was DE 'schwachsinnig'. Now I am convinced the
main sense is DE 'komisch, kauzig, merkwürdig', which would be NL 'koddig'<em>(Ha! There it is!),</em> E 'hilarious,
comic, odd'.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">My mistake had been caused by the fact that someone told me that
her 90 years old mother had senile dementia and for that became
"rütentütig".</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">It's sometimes not very easy to remain correctly in
interpretations concerning etymological facts if one has to build on only a few
sources.</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Allerbest!</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in; font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Jonny Meibohm</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New"; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Lower </span>Saxony,
Germany</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From:
R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:
Etymology</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br>
Congratulations, Kevin! I think you did it.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Of course
I was familiar with “rootin’-tootin’”, but I didn’t make the connection.</p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
I wonder if this goes back to the late 19th century with its fascination with the "Wild West" in Germany and large-scale emigration to the USA from Northern Germany.<br></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Regards,</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Seattle, USA</p>
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