LL-L "Names" 2005.09.28 (03) [E]

[Lowlands-L]

======================================================================
L O W L A N D S - L * 28.SEP.2005 (03) * ISSN 189-5582 * LCSN 96-4226
http://www.lowlands-l.net * lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net
Rules & Guidelines: http://www.lowlands-l.net/index.php?page=rules
Posting: lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org or lowlands-l at lowlands-l.net
Commands ("signoff lowlands-l" etc.): listserv at listserv.net
Server Manual: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8c/userindex.html
Archives: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8) [Please switch your view mode to it.]
=======================================================================
You have received this because you have been subscribed upon request.
To unsubscribe, please send the command "signoff lowlands-l" as message
text from the same account to listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org or
sign off at http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.
=======================================================================
A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
L=Limburgish LS=Lowlands Saxon (Low German) N=Northumbrian
S=Scots Sh=Shetlandic V=(West) Flemish Z=Zeelandic (Zeêuws)
=======================================================================

From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.09.27 (02) [E]

> From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2005.09.26 (04) [E]
>
> Dear Gabriele,
>
> Subject: LL-L "Lexicon"
>
>> Mark Dreyer wrote:
>>
>>> My all-time favourite is that historic dorp bearing the name
>>> 'Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein', (the 'Spring
>>> where two
>>> buffalos were killed stone dead with one shot'). Let the Welshman
>>> read, &
>>> weep!
>>>
>> Are you sure it wasn't "Hottentottententententoonstelling"?
>>
> Good one, but I think my offering is longer.
>
> Anyhow, WHO SAYS SIZE DOESN'T MATTER?!
>
> Yrs,
> A Male of the species
What about
hottentottententententoonstellingstentjesgereedschapskoffertje ?

Groetjes
Luc Vanbrabant
Oekene

We used to make competitions for the most trivial compounds.

----------

From: burgdal32admin <burgdal32 at pandora.be>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.09.25 (04) [E]


  From: Jo Thys <jo.thijs1 at telenet.be>
  Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.09.25 (01) [E]


  Heather, allemaal,
    Do any Lowland languages have anything similar to 'runnels' for anykind 
of
    timber live or dead?


  In Dutch exists  'run' for the bark of oak. Mdutch  'rinde', 'rindt',
  'rende',' runde','runne' 'ruyne',' run' (bark) Osax, Ohg 'rinda' Oe rind
  (eng rind) cognate with Md 'renden' (to tear up, to rend), Mlg 'rende'
  (something broken), Ofries 'renda', 'randa' (to tear up, to break), Oe'
  rendan' (to tear up, to cut), Oind 'randhra '(an opening, a tear, a 
crack).
  Therefore the original meaning would have been  'tearing off the bark of
  oak' (according van Dale).


  Groeten,


  Jo Thys
We have the word 'renne' in Flemish, 'ren' in Dutch, meaning   a 
(chicken-)run.

'Rens/reins' in Flemish means  ligustrum (= Rijnse wissen).


groetes
Luc Vanbrabant
Oekene

----------

From: Ben J. Bloomgren <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Names" 2005.09.25 (04) [E]

Glenn,

On place names in the North East of England - a
remarkable feature of the region is the lack of
British place names - many topographical names
survive, i.e. rivers, burns etc, but few actual
settlement place names.

If the place names there are Anglian, then what is "British?" Does that
refer to the modern UK?
Ben

==============================END===================================
  * Please submit postings to lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org.
  * Postings will be displayed unedited in digest form.
  * Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
  * Commands for automated functions (including "signoff lowlands-l") are
    to be sent to listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org or at
    http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html.
======================================================================