LL-L "Etymology" 2002.08.25 (04) [E/LS]

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From: "Friedrich-Wilhelm Neumann" <Friedrich-Wilhelm.Neumann at epost.de>
Subject: LL-L "Nomads" 2002.08.25 (01) [E]

Hi, Luc, Leeglanners,

You wrote:

>The odd beggar also paid us a visit from time to time...the verb that
>invariably got used when the activities of these people were mentioned
>was :
>"trasn" (= to beg (E)), and I have never ever been able to track its
>history
>down. Not even one cognate. Strange.

I don't know this word in our Low Saxon dialect, but- if we had, we
should
say "troosn".
That does remind me to the (U.G.) "Tross", (E) "the train of an army".
Some
(in former times mostly not so well respected) folks "tracking" behind
the
fighting troops along the roads.

Greutens/Regards

Fiete.

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