LL-L: "Archaisms" LOWLANDS-L, 08.NOV.1999 (01) [E/LS]

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From: Reiner Brauckmann [Reiner.Brauckmann at FernUni-Hagen.de]
Subject: LL-L: "Archaisms" LOWLANDS-L, 07.NOV.1999 (06) [D/E]

> From: Roger P. G. Thijs [roger.thijs at village.uunet.be]
> Subject: old vocabulary
>
....
> __wen__/ Pachter/ The one who lends the land from somebody
> - comment:  I just know the word "wénning" for lage farm in my dialect,

Wenning es auk en bekanten Familgennaomen.

> - comment:  cf. Dutch "broodwinning" (main income)
>
.....
> __tochter__/ vruchtgebruiker/ the one that may have the revenues of the land
> (as long as he lives)
>
Lieftucht und Lieftu"chter sin Begriepe hier in Westfaolen.
Meistendeils o"verschriewen olle Lu"e, wecke keine Pension kriett,
ea"h Eigendom an ju"ngere. Toglieks maut de ju"ngere Lu"e dafo"r
couvertieren, dat de ollen eahr Utkommen kriett.
Redensart: se kru"pt op de Lieftucht.

Gued gaohn
Reiner

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