LL-L "Etymology" 2005.09.05 (06) [E/German]

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at CeLTS.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2005.09.05 (04) [E/Cornish]

From: Andrys Onsman
To: Criostóir et al.

Hi Criostóir,

You're right about dags - as in the old song:

Here we are in New South Wales, shearing sheep as big as wales
With leather necks and daggy tails and hides as tough as rusty nails

But these days to be daggy is to be somewhat old-fashioned, eccentric,
touch loopy. Parents are usually daggy.  To my knowledge it's seldom
used really nastily.

Cheers
Andrys

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From: Ingmar Roerdinkholder <ingmar.roerdinkholder at WORLDONLINE.NL>
Subject: LL-L "History" 2005.09.05 (02) [E/German]

Der Name "Pief" erinnert mich an "Piefke" (oder "Biefke"?), das ich oft in
Österreich gehört habe, für <Deutscher>. Es sieht eigenlich aus wie einen
niedersächsischen Namen, fande ich, stimmt das?
Oder vielleich ein Diminutiv von "Pief".
Im Niederlandischen, das Wort "pief" heisst einfach ein fremder Kerl.

Ingmar

>Die Gabi hat geschrieben:

>Zugereist in diese Gegend,
>Noch viel mehr als sehr vermögend,
>In der Hand das Perspektiv,
>Kam ein Mister namens Pief.
>"Warum soll ich nicht beim Gehen",
>Sprach er, "in die Ferne sehen?
>Schön ist es auch anderswo,
>Und hier bin ich sowieso."
>Hierbei aber stolpert er
>In den Teich und sieht nichts mehr.
>(Wilhelm Busch, Plisch und Plum)

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