LL-L "Semantics" 2002.06.06 (05) [E/F]

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From: "Stella en Henno" <stellahenno at hetnet.nl>
Subject: LL-L "Semantics" 2002.06.05 (01) [E]

> From: "Marco Evenhuis" <evenhuis at zeelandnet.nl>
> Subject: LL-L "Semantics" 2002.06.04 (02) [E]
>
> > Ron wrote:
> > >(By the way, Low Saxon _leeg_ is semantically interesting in that it
> > >means both 'low' (and also 'flat', thus _Leegland_ 'low-lying, flat
> > >land') and 'bad' (> 'inferior', 'evil', 'naughty').)
>
> The same goes for Zeêuws: _leege_ or _leage_ means
> both 'low' and 'flat', although under recent Dutch
> influence, forms like _laoge_ and _laege_ become
> more and more widespread.
> I think that in Dutch _leeg_ originally also meant
> 'low'.

Dat tink ik net, it Holla^nske wurd _leeg_ komt fan _ledig_, in wurd
dat troch myn etymologysk wurdboek fan in Ald-Germaansk *lithug- komt
(en de^r't de betsjutting net alheel du'dlik fan is, yn 'e rjochting fan
"frij, net bu^n" alteast..) Besibbe is it Fryske "liddich" en de^rfan
o^flaat : "leech".
(_liddige tiid_, mar _in leech kopke_, bg.)

In oar wurd is Frysk _leech_, Nl _laag_ ND _leig_/_leeg_.
Dit komt fan Ald-Germaansk *la^gi-, en yn it Holla^nsk hat de -i gjin
omlu^d bewurke, en it de oare neamde talen a^l. Dit wurd is besibbe
oan Nl _liggen_, Frysk _lizze_.

Mei freonlike groetenis,

Henno Brandsma

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Semantics

Yn it Nedersaksysk (Nederdútsk, Platdútsk) fan Noardddútslân sizze wy
_leddig_ ['lEdIC] foar "leech" (Hollânsk _ledig_, Ingelsk _empty_,
_vacant_, Dútsk _ledig_*, _leer_).

(* no gewoanlik "niet getrouwd," "unmarried;" mar Nedersaksysk _leddig_
(1) 'leech', (2) "niet getrouwd")

Freonlike groetenis!
Reinhard/Ron

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