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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: <span name="Roger Verhiest"><span class="gD" name="heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</a></span></span></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><span name="Roger Verhiest"><span class="go"></span></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2013.02.07 (01) [EN]</font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">from heather rendall </font><a href="mailto:heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">heatherrendall@tiscali.co.uk</font></a><br>
<br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">How interesing that Hanne should include<br> mummen = undeutlich murmeln.<br><br> as the OED has 'mutterer' as the XVth century alternative to Mummer<br> i.e. a dumb show player<br>
<br>It too links the word to MLG mummen = a mask but I wonder which came<br> first:-<br><br>a dumb show with masked characters acting out in front of audiences<br> who might not have spoken a common language<br><br>and from there to a masked character and then onto anyone masked<br>
<br>Cetainly linked says the OED, to OF momeur - an actor in a dumbshow<br><br>but it adds that the relative chronology of this group is obscure.<br><br>Which came first: the mask or the dumb show<br><br>Best wishes<br><br>
Heather<br><br>who is catching up on 171 emails accumulated while my broadband has<br> been down over the last 12 days !!!!!!</font></div></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" dir="ltr"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
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