LL-L "Etymology" 2002.05.02 (05) [E/S]

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From: kcaldwell31 at comcast.net
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2002.05.01 (05) [E/S]

> From: "John M. Tait" <jmtait at wirhoose.co.uk>
> Subject: Language Varieties
>
> Perhaps someone can help me with these words, which I have heard on TV
> today.
>
> 2. Stent. On Tomorrows World, used of a device for enlarging arteries.
> I'm very familiar with this word in Shetlandic, meaning to stretch
> tight, as of the stomach after food - exactly the meaning of the
> artery-stretching device. As Derrick Herning (polyglot of Europe at
one
> time) says in his translation of Max und Moritz (end of second trick):
>
> Jarm an Jeemsie stentit foo
> Snores laek grice ahint da skroo
> Aa dat's left owre o dis footh
> Is a hen leg i der mooth
>
> stentit foo - with stomachs stretched full of food
> grice - pig(s)
> footh - abundance
> skroo - round, peaked construction of corn sheaves
>
> This word is given in the Concise Scots Dictionary, but Chambers
doesn't
> give it at all with this meaning. Is the name of the medical device a
> coincidence?

English has the word "distended" which can be applied to stomachs
(usually a condition brought on by malnutrition, not from being full).
"Distend" comes from Latin "distendere" - to stretch apart.  Could this
be the origin of the Scots "stent"?  Anyway, it turns out the medical
device's name is a coincidence (the following is from the EncartaR World
English Dictionary [North American Edition] C & (P) 2001 Microsoft
Corporation. All rights reserved.  Developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury
Publishing Plc.):

stent [stent ] (plural stents) noun
device for keeping bodily tubes open:  an open tubular structure of
stainless steel or plastic used to prevent arteries and other body tubes
from becoming blocked by disease  [Mid-20th century. Named for the
British dentist Charles T. Stent (1807-1885).]

Kevin Caldwell

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