LL-L "Lexicon" 2006.03.13 (09) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 13 March 2006 * Volume 09
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From: Ben J. Bloomgren <Ben.Bloomgren at asu.edu>
Subject: LL-L "Language contacts" 2006.03.13 (04) [E]

Yestereven yestreen

Those remind of what my friend Sydney in Minnesota uses. She says "Yesterday
night" and such, and it sounds so cool and a bit quaint. I like it. I don't
use them though. I still use last night and yesterday. She even says
yestermonth.
Ben

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

Hi, Ben, Lowlanders!

According to the _Oxford English Dictionary_, Modern English (supposedly 
"scattered" over dialects) has the following forms with "yester-":

yestereve
yesterday
yesternight
yester-afternoon
yester-age
yesternoon
yester-tempest
yester-week
yester-year

I believe Scots _yestreen_ 'yesterday' comes from *_yester-_ and _een_ (< 
*_even_).  An interesting derivation of this is _the streen_* 'last 
evening', 'last night', 'yesterday evening'.  So here we seem to have 
derivations of the same word meaning two things.

* Note that Scots sometimes uses _the_ in the sense of "this very ...," as 
in _the nou_ (_the noo_)** 'now', 'at this moment', 'at this time', _the 
morn_ ~ _the morra_ 'tomorrow', _the nicht_ 'to night', _the day_ 'today'. 
So it's were English tends to have "to-".

** So _nou_ (_noo_) can be used as a noun, as for instance in German _im Nu_ 
"in the "now"" = 'in no time'.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron 

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