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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2013.03.28 (01) [EN]</font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From analogy we would expect the word "fuchtig" to have a long vowel looking at words like "küüchen" (German "keuchen") or "Lüüd" (German "Leute"), but there seems to be an additional rule that changed "üücht" to "ücht": "süchten" (German "seufzen") and "lüchten" (German "leuchten").<br>
<br> I'm pretty sure there are more examples but at the moment my mind cannot find any more.<br><br> In the 1930 book "Deutsche Grußformeln in neuhochdeutscher Zeit" there is a small section about "holl di fuchtig". It cites an expression used in the Vierlanden: "</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Holl <em>di fuchtig</em> as de Pogg' in't Wáter" (this is taken from an Google Books excerpt, I don't have the full text). So there are at least some native speakers who identify the word to mean "wet". Although that doesn't mean that this identification is universal or the original meaning.<br>
<br> The book also references the "Versuch eines bremisch-niedersächsichen Wörterbuches" dictionary, volume I, page 461, where it says (I cite the full entry on "fucht"): <br><i>FUCHT, feucht, uvidus. A.S. fucht. H. vucht und vocht. Sik fucht holden: sich wohl und tapfer halten, strenuum se gerere. Eigentlich will es sagen: bis zum Schweiß arbeiten. Im Scherz sagt man auch: holt di fucht, averst pisse nig in 't Bedde: halt dich wohl.</i><br>
<br> This dictionary is from 1767, so the expression is definitely very old. </span><span><span>"Versuch eines bremisch-niedersächsichen Wörterbuches" is one of or even _the_ oldest dictionary of Modern Low Saxon.</span></span></font></font></span></p>
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