LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 10.JAN.2001 (09) [E]

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From: Margaret Tarbet [oneko at mindspring.com]
Subject: "Etymology"

On Wed, 10 Jan 2001 15:11:40 -0800,  Frank Verhoft wrote:

>If I'm not mistaken, in English this is _peekaboo_. Is
>this exclamation known and/or used in Scots?

I'm virtually positive that it is, but I can't quite remember it.
Peekie-bo?  Peek-a-bo? Keek-a-bo? Keekie-boo?  They all sound right
and wrong simultaneously.  Sannnndiiiiie!  :-)

There is a (logically) related one I do remember:  'Wan's hidin
[cover one eye slowly] twa's hidin [cover the other slowly], keek!
keek!  keek!' [uncover both suddenly]

Margaret

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From: Sandy Fleming [sandy at fleimin.demon.co.uk]
Subject: "Etymology"

> From: frank verhoft [frank_verhoft at yahoo.com]
> Subject: Etymology
>
> _Kieken_ was quite a common dialectic word for
> _kijken_, which, btw, is found back in the lovely
> Modern Dutch word/exclamation _kiekeboe!_.
> "kiekeboe: [uitroep] <kiekebeu 1665> van kieken, dial.
> nevenvorm van kijken + het tussenwerpsel boe!"
> (Van Dale Etymologisch Woordenboek, 1997)
> If I'm not mistaken, in English this is _peekaboo_. Is
> this exclamation known and/or used in Scots?

The exclamation in Scots is "keekieboo!" ['kikI,bu:],
very much like the Dutch.

> Sandy wrote:
> > It's important to understand that Scots "keek" is
> _not_
> > a cognate of the Dutch "kijken", ie it doesn't mean
> "look".
>
> The (purely) amateur of linguistics and languages in
> me was quite puzzled reading this, because he thought
> cognates don't need to have the same meaning in the
> respective modern/contemporary languages, only the
> same lexical origin.

Ah, it's me that's the amateur. I know Scots but I
don't know linguistics, other than the fact that I
_now_ know what a cognate really is!

Sandy

A dinna dout him, for he says that he
On nae accoont wad ever tell a lee.
                          - C.W.Wade,
                    'The Adventures o McNab'

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