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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span><span name="Brooks, Mark"></span></span><span><span name="Montgomery Michael"></span></span><span><span name="Veturlidi Oskarsson"></span></span><span><span name="Heinrich Becker"></span></span><span><span name="Kevin & Cheryl Caldwell"></span></span><span><span name="Theo Homan">Theo Homan</span> <span><a href="mailto:theohoman@yahoo.com" target="_blank">theohoman@yahoo.com</a></span></span></span></p>








<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: </span><span class="gI">LL-L "Etymology" 2012.10.02 (01) [EN]</span></p><p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">

<br><span class="gI"></span></p><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="is"><span>From: <span><span></span></span></span></span><span><span>Hellinckx Luc</span> <span><a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a></span></span><span lang="is"><span></span></span></span><br>

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      Subject: <span>LL-L "Etymology"</span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="is"><span></span></span></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Beste Veturlidi,</span><br>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
You wrote:</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
> what do we know about the the word MLG "wambeis", used about a sort
 of a jacket, in the 15th century and probably before and after.</span>
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Ultimately the word derives from Middle Greek "βάμβαξ" (bámbax), meaning
 "cotton", but with plenty of interference from "wambe", Old Dutch for 
"belly", and cognate with English "womb".</span>

<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
"Wam" is still known in older Brabantish for the gill of a fish and in 
Western Flemish for its belly. The garment however is not in use 
anymore.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Kind greetings,</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium</span></blockquote><div style="text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div>

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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi,</span></div><div style="text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div>

<div style="text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Search for the latin 'vambasium'.</span></div>

<div style="text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>The roman soldiers wore a vambasium under their outer -leather-
 armour-plates.</div><div style="text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="text-align:left;font-style:normal;font-size:16px;background-color:transparent;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">

<a href="http://vr.gr">vr.gr</a>.</div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><span><font color="#888888">Theo Homan</font></span>.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><br></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center">

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