LL-L: "Morphology" LOWLANDS-L, 12.JAN.2001 (05) [E]

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From: R. F. Hahn [sassisch at yahoo.com]
Subject: Morphology

Dear Lowlanders,

Just now I wrongly attributed the following posting to Helge Tietz.  It is
from Marco Evenhuis <evenhuis at zeelandnet.nl>.  Sorry about that.

Reinhard/Ron

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From: Marco Evenhuis <evenhuis at zeelandnet.nl>
Subject: LL-L: "Morphology" (was "Etymology") LOWLANDS-L, 11.JAN.2001 (03) [E]

> From: Criostoir O Ciardha [paada_please at yahoo.co.uk]
> Subject: LL-L: "Etymology" LOWLANDS-L, 11.JAN.2001 (01) [E]
>
> Clearly the "senn" is a suffix of some kind. Didn't I
> once read somewhere that Danish has suffixed definite
> article...? Could "senn" be "self" + definite suffix?
> Something hypothetical like "*ann"?

For your information, some Zeelandic and quite a few West-Flemish dialects
have these forms:

myself = mienzelvn
yourself = joenzelvn
himself = zienzelvn or 'imzelvn
herself = 'eurzelvn
themselves = ulderzelvn

The v in -zelvn is always silent, so the pronounciation of -zelvn is almost
the same as your -senn. Most Zeelandic dialect however have more Hollandic
forms like 'mien eigen', 'j'n eigen', etc.

regards,

Marco

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