LL-L "Etymology" 2003.07.29 (02) [E/LS]

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From: Friedrich W. Neumann <Fieteding at gmx.net>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2003.07.28 (04) [E/lS]

Moin, Mathieu, Henno,

thanks  for improving my posting:

>  Mathieu and Stella en Henno <stellahenno at hetnet.nl> wrote:
>
> > From: Friedrich W. Neumann <Fieteding at gmx.net>

> >
> > (English below)
> > vonn Doog heff ick mii de neige Swadesh-List mit Peter Snepvanger siin
> > Sater-Freesk ankeeiken.
> > Door full mi opp, wat jemme Woord föör (E): "water" "wetter" is.
> >English:
>>
> > Today I had a look into the new Swadesh-List with Peter Snepvanger's
> > Sater-Frisian.
> > I found their word for (E) "water" as "wetter".

> > Fiete.

> This is not correct, I'm afraid. "Sater-Freesk" (Sater Frisian) for
English
> "water" is _Woater_. The Modern West Frisian word IS _wetter_. So maybe
> someone
> has those words confused.

> Well, as I explained before, Saterfreesk is NOT "Sassisch" but Frisian.

> I think it might very well be a Frisian relic. But also a parallel
> "umlauted" form
> like "*watir" might very well explain such a form. Again, one would have
to
> do more
> research to tell. I don't know very much about Germanic water names.

I got the wrong way, of course.

But- now I guess to know which way the word (LS): "Wettern" came into our
regional LS-dialect.

West of the City of Hambourgh we have a region, called (UG): "Altes Land",
(E): "Old country".
It had been settled by Dutch people long times ago. You can find there
personal-names like "Armholt", "Stüürholt", "Schuback" and local names like
"Twielenfleth" still today- sounding Frisian and Dutch, as a presume.

They did built the draining-systems there and gave them their names, of
course.

Regards

Fiete.

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