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From: Elsie Zinsser <ezinsser at icon.co.za>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" [A]

Haai julle,

Mark, dis 'n plesier. Die Towenares was nie in my Groot Verseboek nie maar
Google weet alles.
Dit was vir my ook 'n ontdekking en dankie aan Theo vir die vraagje. Ek dink
dat Marais lank sy
tyd vooruit was en dat hy nie genoeg erkenning kry vir sy vreemd moderne
aanslag nie.
Ek het hier in my hand 'Mumtaz' se 'Kajal with almond oil for sensitive
eyes', en Wikipedia laat weet
die volgende;

*Kohl* is a mixture of soot <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soot> and other
ingredients used predominantly by Middle
Eastern<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East>,
North African <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Africa>, Sub-Saharan
African <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa>, and South
Asian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia>
women <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woman>, and to a lesser extent
men<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man>,
to darken the eyelids <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyelid> and as
mascara<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascara>for the
eyelashes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyelash>. Kohl {from
Arabic<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language>كحل
kuḥl) is also sometimes spelled *kol*, *kehal* (in the Arab
world<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world>),
or *kohal*, and is known as *surma* or *kajal* in South
Asia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asia>.
It is the etymon <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymon> of
"alcohol<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol>
."[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#cite_note-DCECH-0>

Kohl has been worn traditionally as far back as the Bronze
Age<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age>(3500 B.C. onward). Kohl
was originally used as protection against
eye <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye> ailments. Darkening around the
eyelids also provided relief from the glare of the
sun<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun>.
Mothers would also apply kohl to their
infants<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant>'
eyes soon after birth <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth>. Some did this to
"strengthen the child's eyes," and others believed it could prevent the
child from being cursed by an "evil eye<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_eye>
".[2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/#cite_note-hardy_cairo-1>

Groete,

Elsie

From: Mark Dreyer <mrdreyer at lantic.net>
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2008.06.10 (05) [A/E]

Beste
Elsie en Theo:

Onderwerp: LL-L "Lexicon"

Ek kan my vererg dat ek nie die 'Eugene' Marais gesnap het nie, my keudigter
in Afrikaans.

Terloops, ek praat onder korreksie, maar is kohl nie 'n vorm van kopererts
nie? Daar is myne ontdek in Swaziland wat tientalle duisend jare gelede glo
bewerk is vir 'kohl', waar kopererts ontgin word. Die ertsoplossing is eens
in Egipte met gestook affineer, en in gelyke wyse toe die alkahol uit gebrou
uit. Om die rede het ons die woord alkahol uit die Arabies 'al kohl'.

Ek dink aan u stelling, Elsie, oor die snoesige, langdurige hitte van
swart-doringhout en die hoflikheid daarbyvorbonde. Vir seker is dit wat saak
maak, want is die stem van die storieverteller asook die danslied en die
versoek om haar te hoor nie saam met die jagterswederkoms (iedereen in
teendeel nie-towenaarlike verdrywe) heen nie?

Dankie vir die gedig en die ontdekking.

Die uwe,
Mark
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