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From: "Charles Daniel" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] Wet-nurse RSA
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 14:16:46 +0200
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From: "Andrew Rodger" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 7:11 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] Wet-nurse RSA


> Yes, these are all Germanic languages. "Moer" has unfortunate
> connotations in modern Afrikaans slang but is clearly a contraction of
> Moeder (mother).
>
> These Germanic words turn up in the most unexpected places. In Oslo
> last year I visited the National Historical Museum and found the word
> "barn" under a carving from the doorway of one of those wonderful old
> stave churches. As the carving depicted the Virgin and Child, I
> immediately realized where the old Scots word "bairn" comes from!
> (There are of course centuries-old economic and cultural links between
> Norway and Scotland -- a Queen of Scotland was known as The Maid of
> Norway, Norway's national composer (Edvard Hagerup Grieg) was the
> grandson of a Scot called Greig, and the first speaker of the Storting
> (Norwegian Parliament) in the mid-19th Century was a man called
> Christie.) There is also an old Northumberland song called "Bobby
> Shaftoe" which contains the line "The lassies, they all keek at him!"
> "Keek" is clearly the same word as the Afrikaans "kyk".
>
> A number of people on this List have the same problem with Windows
> settings for their sendings to the List, and I have no idea how to fix
> it -- I avoid Microsoft's mail products like the plague. You should be
> able to spot whether the "Reply to:" field has the sender's address or
> that of the List. If the latter, just hit "Reply"; if the latter,
> likewise, but copy the List's address and paste it in place of the
> sender's name in the reply.
>
> On Friday, December 5, 2003, at 12:30 AM, Elizabeth Teir wrote:
>
> > Good Afternoon,
> >
> >
> > Minnemoer is Loved Mother an old world not in the present dictionaries
> > specially not in HAT. However minne is - met die betekins Liefdes -
> > Meaning of Loves. If I recall the history of Afrikaans correctly it will
> > be right to say Afrikaans, Netherlands, Flaams, old Norse - Swedish are
> > all from the same language group. Germanic dialects. In Swedish mor
> > means mother and is pronounce moer.
> >
> >
> > Rgds
> > Elizabeth Teir
> >
> > I apologise for sending it to the editor but surely the reply button
> > problem is not been solved but genoeg is genoeg if I recall it
> > correctly.
> >
>
>
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