LL-L "Etymology" 2003.12.09 (02) [E]

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From: Jan van Steenbergen <wenedyk at yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2003.12.09 (05) [E]

--- Peter Snepvangers skrzypszy:

> Could you tell me from where the words originated and the variants in
> Frisian and Limburgs. They are "smeuig" and "ouwel".

Well, this is what my etymological dictionary says:

smeu (1897), smeuïg (1778) [...], with secondary, rounded -eu < smeeïg <
smedig, compare Nfri. smeudich, smedich. Related to smeden/smid (smith)
[...]. A groundform *smuði is unacceptable. However, it could be from
Germanic *smanþô and *smanþi- (related to English "smooth").
As Low Saxon equivalents it mentions "smô" < "smôde" and "smöde".

As someone else mentioned, "ouwel" seems to be related to Latin
"oblāta", perhaps not directly derived from it, but as a cross-over
between two unknown words.

Jan

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