LL-L "Semantics" 2004.06.23 (02) [E]

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

Beste liëglanners,

Sandy's remark about choirs signing "Hark the herald angels sing" made
me think about this interesting verb "to hark", as it also exists in
both Flemish ("horken", "örkt e kiër", "listen to this"), Frisian and
Saxon.
On the other hand, Brabantish doesn't have it at all, and even though
German has "horchen", according to Duden this must have been a "recent"
development, variations on "to listen" being the norm in southeastern
Germanic lands during the Middle Ages. That's why I wonder if there's
any semantic difference between "to listen" and "to hark" in either
Flemish, English, Frisian or Saxon.
On a side-note I'd like to add that Brabantish vocabulary does have the
noun "(h)ork" though, but it denotes a callous, heartless man, something
entirely different. Maybe fear of homonymy played a role here???

Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx

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