LL-L "Etymology" 2005.03.22 (09) [E]

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

Dear Lowlanners,

tonight I met some Dutch friends, most of them farmers and sailors, and we
had good red wine and nice talks.

We started to talk about horses, and I merely couldn't believe, that they
knew the (as I presumed) typical "German" Low-Saxon-word "Klopphingst".
It is standing for a "male horse with just one testicle".

So far, so good.

One of our elder (German LS-native) members steered our conversation from
that "Klopphingst" to an old LS-word: "Kloppdissel" (E: "pole for just one
horse"; HG: "Einspänner-Deichsel").
I myself do remember this word having heard in my childtimes.

My question: the prefix "klopp-"- is there (in other dialects/Saxon-typed
languages)more of this kind of stuff pointing to "E: single, just one of the
same type", "HG: einzeln, allein, einer von [eigentlich] mehreren"? I can't
get an etymological hand on this!

Greutens/sincerely

Johannes "Jonny" Meibohm

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Moyen, Jonny!

We've talked about _klophingst_ before, a long time ago, but not about
_klop-dissel_ 'single-horse drawbar'.

Your question is very interesting.  Here's my 0.10 Euro(s) worth of input.

English has the (archaic?) verb "to clop" (Old French _ecloppé_ < Latin
_clop-_ e.g. _cloppus_ 'lame').  English 'to clop' has the same meaning as
'to hobble' in the transitive sense (probably related to the intrasitive
form and to German and Low Saxon _hoppeln_) .  Transitive "to hobble", like
"to clop," means 'to tie two legs together (to inhabit movement)'.   So
there's the idea of "making (what is usually double into) single."

Kumpelmenten,
Reinhard/Ron

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