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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: Henry Pijffers <<a href="mailto:henry.pijffers@gmail.com">henry.pijffers@gmail.com</a>></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2013.03.28 (01) [EN]</font></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Joachim Kreimer wrote:<br></font><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In this case, NL <i>vochtig</i> for "moist" is linguistically an aberration, because the longer duration of the Germanic root syllable <i>fiuht</i> / <i>fūht</i> / LS <i>füücht</i>, is not kept in it. It had better developed as NL <i>vuucht(ig)</i> of <i>vuicht(tig)</i>, by this letting place to a desirable and <b>possible</b> NL <i>vechtig / vachtig / vochtig</i> (from <b>existing!) NL <i>vecht / vacht / vocht</i></b> EN <i>fight, battle </i>etc).</font></div>
</div></span></blockquote><div><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is the word "hardvochtig" in Dutch, which now means heartless, callous, or harsh, but once used to mean brave.<br></font></div><div>
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There is also the word "vechtich" in the Delft Bible of 1477 (Jeremia 14:9), but there it seems to mean rather the opposite of brave.<br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">regards,<br>
Henry Pijffers</font></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font></div></div><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;line-height:normal"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
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