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From:  Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L: "Help needed" LOWLANDS-L, 09.AUG.2001 (02) [E]

Dear Frans,

Many thanks for your help.  I think now that 'duyterste' is a
contraction for 'den uyterste'.  Do you have any ideas about 'erve(en)'?
I had translated it in my mind as 'beam' as I went along, but
'erf/erven' only appears in my dictionary as 'inheritence' and 'yard',
neither of which make any sense here.

In Haslinghuis' _Bouwkundige Termen_, interestingly enough, 'herve' is
said to be an English word, glossed by the Dutch 'rib'.  'Herve' doesn't
appear in the full OED, so I'm guessing it may be very dialectal in
English, and dialectal in Dutch too.  As my thesis is on the contacts
between the Dutch and other building industries in the 1600s and 1700s,
this is fascinating (to me!).

With thanks and best wishes,

Pat
(Research student, Department of Archaeology, University of York).
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Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years
time"
   (T. Pratchett)

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