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From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2003.02.04 (15) [E]

> From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
> Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2003.02.04 (10) [D/E]
>
> Couldn't "duye" as in "duyemelker" be related to "uier" (udder)?
>
> Gabriele Kahn
>
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>
> From: W. Jaap Engelsman <engelsma at euronet.nl>
> Subject: LL-L "Help needed" 2003.02.04 (09) [E]
>
> Martijna Briggs wrote:
>> I am reading the text under a 17th century print about the demise of
>> Flora
>> and the Floristen at the end of the Dutch tulipmania and I cannot
>> find the
>> meaning of the name: duyemelker. I found a picture of period
>> furniture with
>> the word 'duye' above it: no more explanation. is there someone who
>> can
> shed
>> light on this mystery/
>
> It certainly does look like a slight corruption of "duyvenmelcker"
> (and I
> can't think of anything else it might be in Dutch). A "duivenmelker"
> (modern Dutch) is someone who keeps pigeons as a hobby, or perhaps for
> some
> kind of profit, like trading, or participating in pigeon races.
> According
> to the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, this and similar words
> derive
> from "koeien melken" (milking cows) in the sense of "keeping cows". The
> meaning "keeping [animals]" was transferred to other, non-milkable
> animals,
> such as bees, rabbits and pigeons.
>
> Compare "huisjesmelker" (house-milker, someone who makes a profit from
> letting out houses).
>
> Jaap Engelsman

Hello,
I also think of a word like "duyemaker", because  a "duye" can also be
a "duig(e)" and that is still a word that we use. It means a plank , a
stave of a barrel, and this has something to do with timber.
A "duigemaker" would  be someone who makes planks or boards or shelfs.
Groetjes
Luc Vanbrabant
Oekene

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