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From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2008.01.18 (07) [E]

 Dear Elsie & Marcel:

Subject: LL-L "Etymology"

Could this word 'j*o*fel' be related to the English 'jovial' ie jolly,
cheerful, magnanimous, attributes of the Roman god Jove? Afrikaans also has
'joviaal'.

According to Kritzinger, Steyn, Schoonees & Cronje, 'j*a*vel translates into
the English 'lout', 'clodhopper', 'ninconpoop'.

> As in *slim jafel*? Well, why not, I'd say.

> In Dutch we often use the expression: "Het is hier niet al te jofel" or
"Hij is niet jofel", where "niet jofel"  means "not okay, not sane/healthy".

> En /and then we also say: "Een jofele vent" = "great guy". Interesting,
how you feel the > understatement when used in a negative sense.

Yrs,
Mark

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