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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2"> </font></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span></p>
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Grammar"<br></span><br>Beste Jacqueline,<div><br><div><div>You wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">‘It
dawned upon me’ that in Dutch a poetic way to say “This day daws” is;
“Het daget in den Oosten”. I think however that that is a pat
expression. However you can also say “ het begint my te dagen” = ‘I am
beginning to see the light’ as ‘I am starting to understand something’.
So then the question becomes were does the “n” in dawn come from.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>As
early as in 1300, the two forms "dawning" and "dawing" already
coexisted. Seems like those speakers that retained the -n- may just bear
evidence of a closer tie to their Germanic ancestors.</div><div><br></div><div>I think you can compare the process somewhat to:</div><div><br></div><div>own (E) - owe (E) - eigen (D)</div><div><br></div><div>dawn (E) - daw (E) - dagen (D)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also
note that Dutch "dragen" is actually cognate with English
"draw"...maybe in an older version of English the form "drawn" (for the
verb) also existed?</div><div><br></div><div>So I guess the -n- was there in the first place, but then some dialects probably began to differentiate.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind greetings,</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</div></font></div></div><br><div><span><br></span></div>
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