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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font><br></font></p><div style="text-align:left"><font>From: <span><span name="Hellinckx Luc">Hellinckx Luc</span> <span><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span><br>
Subject: <span>LL-L "Etymology"</span><span><br><br></span>Beste Lowlanders,<br><br>
Skimming the netherworld, I stumbled across the lizard-family,
Lacertilia in Latin, hagedis in Dutch. Being somewhat akin to snakes and
dragons, they didn't immediately get pet-status and were all too often
associated with the devil. Maybe their venom had something to do with
this, as even scorpions tend to fear lizards. The Dutch word for
"witch", "heks", and English "hag" is actually a worn down form of
"hagedis" (D), hægtesse (Old English), of which the first element
evolved to "hedge" (compare hawthorn) and the second is cognate with
Norwegian "tysja", a fairy.</font>
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The main reason of my interest lies in the names for this animal. In
Brabantish, we call them "slangeratits". "Slang" is pretty obvious,
snake, but that could be folk etymology as the name is "lagartija" in
Spanish (~ lagarto). Forms like "artis", "aketisse", "lokketisse"...are
also attested in Southern Dutch. German "Eidechse" gets an -r- in
Saarland dialects: eideres, eidris, eiderets, etres..., so that comes
pretty close to "artis/artits/artisj" (metathesis).</font>
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Still I wonder though if Spanish "(la)gartixa/lagartija" may ever have
played a role in the formation of "slangeratits"? By the way, alligator =
el lagarto (de Indias).</font>
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Kind greetings,</font>
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Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</font>
<font><br><br>----------<br><br>R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Etymology<br><br>Interesting, Luc! Thanks!<br><br>Just to add to your data pool: <br>
<br>Afrikaans:</font>
<font><br></font><ul><li><font>akkedis</font></li></ul><font>Low Saxon (of the Netherlands): <br></font><ul><li><font>Drenthe: eveltask, eveltasse, eveltas<span>(</span>t<span>), </span>evertaast, evertas<span>(</span>se<span>)</span></font></li>
<li><font><span>Groningen: </span>evertaske, heveltaske</font></li><li><font>Salland: èverdasse</font></li><li><font>Stellingwerven: eveltaske, evertaske</font></li><li><font>Twente: eveltasse, eawerdasse</font></li><li>
<font>Veluwe: eve<span>(</span>r<span>)</span>desse</font></li>
</ul><font>Low Saxon (of Germany): <br></font>
<ul><li><font><i>Eerdlöper ~ Ierdläuper</i> ("earth walker/runner)</font></li><li><font><i>Eerdkrüper ~ Eerdkruper</i> ("earth creeper")</font></li><li><font><i><font>Adderditsch ~ Edderditsch ~ Eerditsch</font></i></font></li>
<li><font>Oldenburg/Emsland: <i>Steert</i><i><font>ü</font><font>ütz ~ </font><font>Stiert</font><font>ü</font></i></font><font><i>ütz</i> ("tail(ed) toad")<br>
</font></li></ul><font>Limburgish: <br></font><ul><li><font>herdisse</font></li></ul>Scots: <br><font></font><ul><li><font>lizard <br></font></li><li><font>heather-esk</font></li><li><font>man-keeper (also means 'newt', 'water-lizard')<br>
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</li></ul><font>Luxemburgish:<br></font><ul><li><font>Eidechs</font></li></ul><font>Modern Standard German <i>Eidechse</i> [ˈaɪdɛksə] according to the <i>Duden</i>'s etymology:<br></font><ul><li><font>Middle High German: <i>egedehse</i>, <i>eidehse</i></font></li>
<li><font>Old High German: <i>egidehsa</i></font></li><li><font>M</font><font>iddle Dutch: <i>ēghedisse</i></font></li>
<li><font>Old English: <i>aðexe</i></font></li><li><font>Indo-European *og<sup>u</sup><sup><span>̯</span></sup>his- </font><font>> *<i>agi-</i> ></font><font> Greek <i>όφις </i>(<i>όphis</i>) 'snake' (= 'reptile'? RFH)?<br>
Old High German <i>dehsa</i> > Middle High German <i>dehse</i> 'spindle'?<br></font> </li></ul><font>Enriched or confused? <br><br>Intrusive ("epenthetic") or original <i>h-</i>?<br><br>Online Etymology dictionary:<br>
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<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><dl><dt class="highlight"><font>lizard </font></dt><dd class="highlight"><font>"an animal resembling a serpent, with legs added to it" [Johnson], late 14c., <span class="foreign">lusarde</span>, from Anglo-Fr. <span class="foreign">lusard</span>, O.Fr. <span class="foreign">laisarde</span> "lizard" (Mod.Fr. <span class="foreign">lézard</span>), from L. <span class="foreign">lacertus</span> (fem. <span class="foreign">lacerta</span>) "lizard," of unknown origin, perhaps from PIE root <span class="foreign">*leq-</span> "to bend, twist" [Klein].
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</div><font>Remember: this is only for starters!<br><br>You open a can? You'd better be able to deal the the worms emanating from it, Bro!<br><br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA<br></font><div><div><font><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></font></div>
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