LL-L "Etymology" 2004.07.01 (07) [E]

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From: Luc Hellinckx <luc.hellinckx at pandora.be>
Subject: Etymology

Beste Ron,


Re "on end", I'd like to add that in Dutch you could say "aan een stuk".
"Hij kon praten, uren aan een stuk". "Zij kon
uitgaan, dagen aan een stuk", which has evolved from "aan één stuk", meaning
without interruption. Time is here viewed as an
interval, litterally comprising "one piece", having only a starting and
ending point, with no discontinuity.

Maybe "on end" reflects the idea that the next time period starts
immediately when the previous one has ended, so there is no
interruption. A bit like elephants in a circus, each one holding the tail of
his predecessor with his own trunk. So "hours on
end", is a set of hours, each individual hour piled on top of the previous
one...making both ends meet, so to speak *s*.

Kind greetings,


Luc Hellinckx

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From: David Barrow <davidab at telefonica.net.pe>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2004.07.01 (05) [E]

'on' as meaning 'un' or without.
>>
>>Yrs Sincerely,
>>Mark
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>Mark,
>
>My English is pretty basic but I've added a few previous lines and tried
>a rough translation
>
That should say my Old English is pretty basic

David Barrow

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