Re: More on Italian briga, brigare, and brigante

At 4:44:41 AM on Thursday, September 18, 2008, tgpedersen wrote:

>> Quite possibly it is a Dutch dialect word (not that I can
>> quote one) for a type of ship also used by Dutch
>> colonists and Capt. Robinson was good at advertising.

> I can't figure out the dialect 100%, but 'schoent' in
> http://heinekenbrother.web-log.nl/heinekenbrother/2005/12/index.html
> seems to indicate movement.

It may be other things as well, but it's a term from the
language of the hunt. An example of its usage: 'dat haas
schoent op een twaalf: neemt passen van twaalf voet'.

<http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/ginn001hand02/colofon.htm>

I also found 'De snelheid waarmee Klein Duimpje door het
land schoent is nog niet geëvenaard'.

<http://ramonhetschrijverke.blogspot.com/>

I'm not convinced that these aren't related to the 'shoe'
word.

Brian