LL-L 'Idiomatica' 2007.01.07 (05) [E]

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L O W L A N D S - L - 07 January 2007 - Volume 05

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From: Andrys Onsman <Andrys.Onsman at calt.monash.edu.au>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.05 (03) [E]

Dear all

Amongst my emails this moin, um, morning, there were those discussing
moi and moin, and another unrelated one from a colleague in South Africa
that ended with Moi bly! Apart from the spooky coincidence, what if any
is the connection, and Elsie, what should I use in reply?

Cheers
Andrys
>
>     Mathias, I looked up the Wiki reference you gave and see a
>     contribution by someone called Harm saying he recalls "moi" being
>     used in n/e Groningen. So maybe my memory of 50+ years and out of
>     the depths of my childhood is right.
>
>     My question then is - has it always been "moin" in other LL areas or
>     has it changed into this, subtly, over time. I can now actually
>     hear, in my mind, my granfather saying "moi" to people he passed
>     when he visited us in Australia in the early 1950s.
>
>     Hugo Zweep

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