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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">From: Helge Tietz <<a href="mailto:helgetietz@yahoo.com">helgetietz@yahoo.com</a>><span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">Subject:
lexicon</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I just came across a Cologne person using the word "driss" which is a
truly Cologne and Ripuarian expression for "dirt" and can be used to
express objects of displeasure as well. Further to the north, in Krefeld (Lower Franconian
language area) the word "driss" becomes "driit", note, we
have crossed the Benrath line and the s becomes t in the end. Amazingly, in
Norwegian the same word is in use as in Krefeld
(spelled "drit") meaning exactly the same thing and is used in
exactly the same context. Moreover, English "dirt" is related to it
and is said to be derived from the Scandinavian "drit", obviously
introduced by the Vikings about 1000 years ago. However, neither Danish, nor
Swedish, Dutch, Frisian or Low Saxon has this expression (as far as I know) and
I am wondering whether the word "drit" (and its Ripuarian exivalent
"driss") is derived from common Germanic language heritage or whether
it has been ex/imported to one or the other area at one point. I am suspecting
the former because the latter would mean that there has been some linguistic
contact between the Rhinelands and Norway during the Viking age. It
has been recorded that some Vikings obviously sailed up the river Rhine but it would amaze me if those voyages left a
linguistic trace in the Rhinelands. Does anyone know about the expression
"drit/dirt/driss" and its linguistic origions?<br>
<br>
Helge</p>
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