From: mbikqyres
Message: 14971
Date: 2002-09-02
--- In cybalist@..., "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@..., "mbikqyres" <a96_aeu@...> wrote:
> > Hello !
> > This word might also be found in Albanian "bujar", a nobleman.
> There
> > is a relation to the landowner.
> >
> > Also "buj" in Albanian means to be somebody´s guest or live
> > temporarily somewhere, not unlike Swedish "bo", to live. I don´t
> know
> > how these words are related to each-other.
> >
> > Alvin
> >
> >
> I heard once in Oklahoma someone who spoke very Southern address
his
> son with 'kmir, bo:' (come here, boy). I've heard Southern dialects
> preserve some features of English dialects, or is this I-less form
a
> side-form? Also notice the social connotations of that word. Other
> example: English boor, cognate with German 'Bauer', and I just saw
in
> a Jutish dictionary 'boere' used condescendingly of the inhabitants
> of Thyholm.
> Perhaps a development guest > temporary settler > permanent settler?
>
> Torsten