LL-L 'Etymology' 2012.01.28 (02) [EN]

[Lowlands-L]

=====================================================
 L O W L A N D S - L - 28 January 2012 - Volume 01
lowlands.list at gmail.com - http://lowlands-l.net/
Posting: lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org
Archive: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html
Encoding: Unicode (UTF-08)
Language Codes: lowlands-l.net/codes.php
=====================================================

From: "Steven Hanson" <ammurit at gmail.com>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2012.01.28 (01) [EN]

This is similar to English usage of the word ‘current’, as in ‘current
events’, and so on.

From: KarlRein at aol.com
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2012.01.27 (02) [EN-NL]

*I too would assume that "carrànts" is cognate with Du. "krant".  However,
Fr. "courant", originally coming from the present participle of "courir"
meaning "run", has long ago taken on the meaning of "up-to-datedness" as in
the expression "au courant" meaning "knowing what is going on, aware of the
latest", = Du. "op de hoogte."  Thus: "the news," just as is suggested in
Du. "krant."*



*Karl Reinhardt*


*Bellaire, Texas, USA*

----------

From: Hellinckx Luc luc.hellinckx at gmail.com
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology'

Beste Karl,

You wrote:

*I too would assume that "carrànts" is cognate with Du. "krant".  However,
Fr. "courant", originally coming from the present participle of "courir"
meaning "run", has long ago taken on the meaning of "up-to-datedness" as in
the expression "au courant" meaning "knowing what is going on, aware of the
latest", = Du. "op de hoogte."  Thus: "the news," just as is suggested in
Du. "krant."*


Three more Lowlands examples:

   - current (E), as in "current news"...news of the day
   - currency (E) ~ money, passing from person to person...the act of money
   "in motion" is stressed here
   - de courant (B, "de koeraañ), electricity, stroom (D), a stream of
   electrons


Kind greetings,

Luc Hellinckx, Halle, Belgium


=========================================================
Send posting submissions to lowlands-l at listserv.linguistlist.org.
Please display only the relevant parts of quotes in your replies.
Send commands (including "signoff lowlands-l") to
listserv at listserv.linguistlist.org or lowlands.list at gmail.com
http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lowlands-l.html .
http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/group.php?gid=118916521473498
=========================================================
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/lowlands-l/attachments/20120128/a80ad68e/attachment.htm>