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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(200, 137, 0);">Marcus Buck</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:list@marcusbuck.org">list@marcusbuck.org</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi">LL-L
"Etymology" 2010.05.04 (04) [EN]</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); text-decoration: none;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Subject:
Etymology</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);">Dear
Lowlanders,<br>
<br>
Talking about the month of May ... I wonder what the story behind the Low Saxon
word <i>Maiaap</i> and its German cognate <i>Maiaffe</i> is. Their literal
meaning is “May ape/monkey”, and this means something like ‘fool‘, ‘silly
person‘.<br>
<br>
I wonder if it goes back to May being what in German is called the <i>Wonnemond
</i>or <i>Wonnemonat</i> ("month of bliss”), associated with courting. So
perhaps <i>Maiaap</i> and <i>Maiaffe</i> originally denoted a fellow that acted
particularly giddily, someone that got quite carried away playing the suitor
during this season of traditional courting rituals and festivities.<br>
<br>
Any cognates and ideas out there?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The German word </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maiaffe </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">is technically a cognate but I wouldn't consider
it a real German word. The word is very rarely used and most Google results
relate to Low Saxon. It seems to be loan-translated from Low Saxon and seems to
be only used in Missingsch and Low Saxon based Northern German vernacular. But
it doesn't seem to be native to any High German dialect.</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;">
Another word of the form "May + 'animal name'" is </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maikatt </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">('May
cat')</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">. </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">It has the meanings 'kitten born in May' (kittens born in autumn
are called 'Stoppelkatt') and 'cockchafer'. </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maikatt </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">is also a nickname
given to people who were fooled on May 1. In older times April 1 wasn't the
only day to fool people. April 30 and May 1 were other occasions to pull
someone's leg. (this tradition still exists in </span>Denmark<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><a style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" href="http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majkat" target="_blank"><http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majkat></a><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">.)
Perhaps the words </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maiaap </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">and </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Maikatt </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">are related by this custom
of fooling people. (The word </span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Aapkatt</i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ['ape cat'] is a Low Saxon word for
'ape', so there maybe is a mental connection between apes and cats. [cf. German
</span><i style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Meerkatze </i><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">'guenon'].)</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;">
Marcus Buck</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: Jonny <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gi">LL-L
"Etymology" 2010.05.04 (04) [EN]</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Beste Reinhard,</p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Du schreyvst:</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><span style="font-family: Arial; color: teal;">...Maiaap</span></em><span style="font-family: Arial; color: teal;"> and its German cognate <i>Maiaffe...</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" lang="NL">Inter'sant Wourd! Amaleev nix van
hoyrt! Is dat in siin Oursprong woll Hough(-düütsch) edders kaomt dat van Platt
aff?</span><span style="" lang="NL"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: teal;">So perhaps <i>Maiaap</i>
and <i>Maiaffe</i> originally denoted a fellow that acted particularly giddily,
someone that got quite carried away playing the suitor during this season of
traditional courting rituals and festivities</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">De DE "Balz-Zeit" van de Vaogels ;-)!</p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Ick kenn mann den'n 'Pingst-Ossen", DE 'Pfingstochse', mann dey schall
jao woll vanne Süüd kaomen ('Almauftrieb').</p>
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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Mit 'Mai' kenn 'ck mann den'n Snack LS <em>"Hey
hett siin' witte Mai-Büx an".</em></p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Mag ween, anner Lüüd köönt Dii meyhr helpen.</p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Allerbest!</p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Jonny Meibohm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Lower </span>Saxony, Germany</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">From: Jonny <<a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a>></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L
"Etymology" 2010.05.04 (04) [EN]</span></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">NB: Ganz spontan fällt mir noch zu <span style="color: teal;">"Maiaffe"</span>
ein, dass ich irgendwo und irgendwann mal gelesen habe, dass <em>"mai"</em> zB im
Skandinavischen die Bedeutung von "schön" hat - demnach wohl connativ
ist mit gleichbedeutend LS <em>"moi".
</em>Ohne Gewähr!</p>
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<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">"Lackaffe" = 'herausgeputzter, oberflächlicher Schönling'???</p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Allerbest!</p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" class="MsoNormal">Jonny Meibohm</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Courier New";" lang="DE"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Lower Saxony, Germany</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="DE"> </span></p>
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