LL-L "Etymology" 2006.04.01 (03) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 02 April 2006 * Volume 03
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From: Marcel Bas <marcelbas at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2006.04.01 (03) [D/E/LS]


Dear all,

About 'nuver'; this is one of those words that you come across when you go 
to theaters. There was a play in the Netherlands, with the name 'Suver 
nuver'. It could denote something as 'neophobia', because if we apply the 
soundlaws to this word and transpose it into Dutch we would end up with 
words like *nuiver, with loss of suffix *nuif, and without vowel lengthening 
*nuf, *nuffig, etc..

There is a word in Dutch _nuf_ which is a girl who pretends to be prudish. 
Hence _nuffig_ = 'as a 'nuf''.

Best regards,

Marcel.

http://www.roepstem.net 

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