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From: Hellinckx Luc luc.hellinckx at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon"
Beste Mark,
You wrote:
I was thinking recently about how we US Americans refer to someone dying as
passing away. We’ll say it instead of saying he died. Sometimes the speaker
will even lower the voice when uttering the words “passed away.”
I began to wonder if this might be a Lowlands thing. Do Lowlands languages
use an equivalent of passed away? What other euphemisms do Lowlands
languages use for dying?
Note the similarity between "to pass away" and French "trépasser" (~ to
trespass), for "to die".
Dutch has a similar verb, "overlijden". It litterally means "to go over...to
the other world, the netherworld" (like "he's gone"). The old meaning of
"lijden" is "to go", for example:
- verleden (D) = the past, referring to things that have gone
- "oët de laëd", said when you are making a detour in Brabantish, you are
actually going out of the "lijd", going out of your way
Another Dutch word built on the idea of "leaving the main road", is
"uitvaart" (false friend Ausfahrt in German, exit on a motorway), but
meaning "funeral" in Dutch. Less formal, in colloquial speech, one could
also say in Brabantish:
- a es 't er aan
- a es kapot
- 't es 't er mee gedaan
- a es doeët
- z'n kèès es oët
- ...
Kind greetings,
Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium
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From: Mike Morgan mwmbombay at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.07 (03) [EN]
Mark commented:
> I was thinking recently about how we US Americans refer to someone dying
as
> passing away. We’ll say it instead of saying he died.
And those of us with southern (i.e southeastern) US roots might just
say "passed" (without the "away").
Here in India one is most likely to hear "expire" as the euphemism for
"die".
(two idioms with "pass" which I think are strictly Indian English are:
1. pass out, whih does NOT mean to faint or becoem unconscious, but
rtaehr to graduate (He passsed out of IIT Bangalore in 2008.)
2. time-pass, which can mean a hobby, but more often means whatever it
is you do just to kill (or waste) time.
mwm || U C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W
Morgan)
Senior Consultant
BA in Applied Sign Language Studies (BAASLS)
*इन्दिरा* गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय | Indira Gandhi National Open
University, New Delhi, India
"Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we
excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered
dreams of others. ... [T]here is another kind of violence, slower but just
as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the
violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay." (Bobby
Kennedy, 5 April 1968)
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From: Hannelore Hinz <hannehinz at t-online.de> <hannehinz at t-online.de>
Subject: Ll-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.07 (03) [EN]
Hallo Lowlanners.
Mark Brooks wrote:
I began to wonder if this might be a
Lowlands thing. Do Lowlands
languages use an equivalent of passed
away? What other euphemisms do Lowlands
languages use for dying?
Up Nedderdüütsch hürt sick dat weiker an (auf Niederdeutsch hört es sich
weicher an).
* In de Wohrheit gahn*, in die Wahrheit gehen, wenn jemand versstorben ist.
*De is lang' in de Wohrheit *schon lange tot.
*Wrausen, *Rasen; *as künn hei nich tiedig naug ünnern Wrausen (Wrosen)
kamen* als konnte er nicht zeitig genug unter den Rasen kommen.*
*Lit.: Wossidlo/Teuchert
Mit ein fründlich Gräuten.
Hanne Hinz
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From: "Stellingwerfs Eigen" <info at stellingwerfs-eigen.nl>
Subject: Ll-L "Lexicon" 2011.07.07 (03) [EN]
Beste Mark,
You wrote>: What other euphemisms do Lowlands languages use for dying?
- d'r angaon
- doodgaon
- doodstarven
- him piepen
- om giegem gaon
- om ziepe raeken
- naor van giegelem gaon
- van kaant(e) raeken
- om 'e klinke raekt
- d'r tussenuut kniepen
- kreundood wezen
- kroondood wezen
- et oflegd hebben
- op et laeste bedde liggen
- starven
- uut de tied raeken
- op strikziede liggen
- oons verlaoten
- mit de orgelman mit(gaon)
- mit de liereman mit(gaon)
- et was zien tied
Mit een vrundelike groet uut Stellingwarf
(die et plat van de voeten nog onder het)
Piet Bult
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Lexicon
Further expressions in Low Saxon of Germany:
Euphemisms:
- inslapen, toslapen ("to fall asleep")
- up de annere Sied gahn ("to cross to the other side")
- de grote Reis' antrẹden ("to set out on the great journey")
- na Rötterdam gahn ("to go to Rotterdam")
Jocular and/or disrespectful:
- na Rötterdam gahn ("to go to Rotterdam")
- de Ogen tokniepen ("to shut one's eyes (forcefully)")
- krepeern ("to die (like an animal)", similar to "to croak" or "to kick
the bucket")
Neutral and direct:
- starven ("to die", related to English 'to starve')
- dood blieven ("to remain dead" = "to end up dead")
- mit Dood afgahn ("to depart with death")
Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA
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