LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.07 (01) [A/E]

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From: Maria Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.06 (03) [D/E]

Dankie, Theo en Jacqueline!

Elsie Zinßer

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From: jonny <jonny.meibohm at arcor.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.11.06 (03) [D/E]

 Beste Ted and all participating Lowlanners,

it's very interesting to go to the roots of the word-family around *
'skar-skor-shore-schaar'*.

Ted, Du schreyvst:

> There seems to be divergence from 'Schore' as related to shore, body of
water, etc.  and 'Score', 'Scora' which seems to be related to
> scoring of a surface, and the sandpaper references 'Skor'.   Is it the
difference between the soft and hard - 'sh' verses 'sk'.  different words >
= different meanings?
I don't think so, because in our/my Low Saxon dialect I see a possible
connection: a 'dike which is standing *schaar/schoor' *means* 'close to the
water line', *in this case preferably used in the meaning* 'close to the
kerb the water _scored_ into the ground',* which is called*
'Abbruch-Kante'*in German
*.*
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Besides that in LS we have an old word which had been in use till the 19th
century:* _Anscot_,* meaning 'growing marshlands' (outside the dike lines),
which *could(!)* formerly have been 'An-skaar/An-skoor' = 'at the shore'.

Another connection could be the LS/G word (Plough-/Pflug-)*'-schar'* (share
of a plough), in which one we find the 'cutting' element again as the water
often "*cuts"* a line into the beach.

Allerbest!

Jonny Meibohm
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