LL-L "Etymology" 2005.02.01 (02) [E/LS]

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From:  jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: Etymijo...Etymology

Leeve Lüüd,

vöör een poor Doog heff ick dat Folgend' funnen:

(http://www.zeit.de/2004/53/orkneys)

Een recht gediegen' Speel  mit een (unbritisch :-)) eenfach' Regelwaarks in
Kirkwall/Orkneys, wat dor all siet aule Tieden (500 Joorn) speelt ward: "The
Ba'".
De twee Parteien, mang de dat afflaupen deit, nennt sick "Uppies" (woll van
"Up"-town) un "Doonies" (woll van "Down"-town).

Mien Vermaut: dat sün' Scotsche' Wöör.

In uns Neddersassischen Dialekt bruukt wi dat Woord "duhn" ook, wenn wi över
een' Taustand snackt, de mennigmool Perblemens bie dat Liekut-Laupen mookt
un dat Snacken un Dinken verboosen deit. Oppletzt waarst Du slecht, un Du
wullt gau no Bed hin. Ajoo- meerstendeels
passeert dat op een Begebenheit, wenn Du tau veel Beer un Brannvien drunken
hest.
Welk Lüüd seggt denn ook, Du weerst in een Beerwitt, or, leeger, wat Du
besoopen ween büst.

Woneem is ditt Woord in uns Sprook komen? För "down" seggt wie anners jo
"dool", "daal". Schottisch' Seelüüd, de dat mitbrocht hefft?

.....

Dear all,

some days ago I found the following URL:

http://www.zeit.de/2004/53/orkneys

A strange kind of playing "football" with (unbritish :-)) simple rules at
Kirkwall/Orkneys: "The Ba'". They play it this way already since 500 years.

The two teams call themselves "Uppies" (from "Up"-town, I guess) and
"Doonies" (from "Down"-town?).

I presume these words to be Scots.

In our Low-Saxon-dialect we use the identically sounding word "duhn" to
describe a certain state, guiding to some problems in walking and which
confuses Your thinking and talking. At the end You will be very aware of
Your stomach, and You just want to hide Yourself in Your bed. Mostly
these things happen on a party, if You drank too much Guinnes and malt
whiskey.
People like to say, You are tipsy, or even worse, You were drunk.

Where did this word come from into our language? Normally for "down" we say
"dool [do:l]", "daal [da:l]". From Scottish sailors perhaps?

Greutens/sincerely

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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