LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.19 (02) [E]

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From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.17 (05) [E]

> From: Críostóir Ó Ciardha <paada_please at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2004.08.16 (08) [E]
>
> Where does the phrase "weather the storm" come in? It seems to use
> _weather_
> to imply duration, time. The English form of _erosion_, _weathering_,
> is a
> conflation of the effects of the elements with a passage of time. I
> conjecture from my own experience with Celtic languages that there was
> originally little difference between the weather and the time. In
> Breton and
> Cornish _amzer_ and _amser_ respectively both mean "time". In Irish,
> _aimsir_ means "weather" and the root _am_ means "time" in the English
> sense. I embarrassed myself greatly while learning Irish by thanking
> people
> for their weather rather than their time because of interference from
> my
> Cornish.
>
> So: whither _weather_ in the sense of _time_ in the Germanic
> languages? And
> for that matter, why does English use _time_ while every other Germanic
> language uses a cognate of _tide_ (D. _tijd_, Ger. _zeit_) to express
> duration?
Hi,
In Dutch we use "verweren" in the sence of erosion/waethering.
In Flemish we have the expression:
-De vruchten van het land weren (E: to remove the harvest from the
fields)
-weerdij/weerdie =a certain amount of time.
In de weerdie van een eure = In about an hour.

groetjes
luc vanbrabant
oekene

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