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 From: Roger Thijs rogerthijs at yahoo.com
 Subject: LL-L "Etymology​"

Hello,

This is just a request for comments on the etymology of "belfort" and
"perron".

In the West of the Southern Netherlands and in Nortth-Western France the
"belfort-beffroi-belfry" became a typical symbol of the freedoms of a town.
It was a bell tower in which the freedom charters of the town were
preserved.

In the East of the Southern Netherlands the Pricipality of Liège, that
included Belgian Limburg, a perron served for the same symbol function.

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfort_(toren)
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belforten_in_Belgi%C3%AB_en_Frankrijk
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Heritage_belfries_map.svg
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beffrois_de_Belgique_et_de_France
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_tower

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron_(zuil)
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron_(symbole)
http://perso.infonie.be/liege06/06six1.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron_(architecture)

The "bel" could be linkled to "bell", but the Dutch word for a large bell
is "klok". A normal "bel" in Dutch is the small thing you can hold in hour
hand or you have on your bike.

In the village, I lived in though, the bell for the angelus was a small one
with a high pitch tone. I think the angelus practice (interrupting the
work in the fields three times a day for prayinng) - as well as the typical
sound - died in the mid fifties.
 In my head "angelus"
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_(gebed)
connects to the painting by Millet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Millet_(II)_001.jpg
as well as to these songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDs8L5LCXBc
score: http://www.musikiwi.com/paroles/yvonneck-angelus-mer,45127.html
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEr-qmj8Tzw
score: http://en.lyrics-copy.com/armand-mestral/le-credo-du-paysan.htm

Back to the bell of the beffry, the most known in Flanders I guess is
"klokke roeland" in the beffry of Gent:
song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy11JSVuixo
 score: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klokke_Roeland

The English wikipedia gives:
The word belfry comes from Old French berfrei which is derived from
Germanic *bergan "to protect" and *frithuz "peace";

For perron is is less clear.
The url at infonie.be gives:
celle-ci est accotée d'une inscription explicative ainsi conçue : "Peru
Voc(or)" "je m'appelle Perron".
In Dutch the word perron is better known for a railway platform.
http://www.etymologiebank.nl/trefwoord/perron
brings it back to Greek: "ontwikkeld uit vulgair Latijn *petrone,
augmentatief van petra ‘steen’, ontleend aan Grieks pétrā ‘id.’, "
Regards,
Roger

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From: Roger Thijs rogerthijs at yahoo.com
Subject: LL-L "Etymology​"

I see in my "sent" that the final ")" bracket is not included in some of
the url links.
Please corerct if necessary.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Roger



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