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> From: Tommy Tyrberg =
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> To: cybalist@egroups.com =
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> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 10:47 PM
> Subject: [cybalist] Re: SV: Odp: Prehistoric Ethnogenic Processes
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> "Jump" might be a medieval borrowing from Old Norse, there is a somewhat
> similar word in Danish: gumpe 'move up and down'.
> Hoppian is undoubtedly the original word. It has cognates in most West and
> North Germanic languages, e. g. Swedish hoppa. The Common Germanic form
> would have been *huppian. It is not attested in Gothic as far as I know.
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> Tommy
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Just an addition: In Westerlauwer Frisian there is the word
_jompe_, which means "to bounce heavily", as e.g. crates in a
truck would do. It's admittedly a pretty rare word, but I could
see what the WFT (Wurdboek fan de Fryske Taal), the largest and most
authorative dictionary (in progress, but the J is finished) has to
say about it.
It might be one of those elusive "Ingweonic" words, that often do
not have a satisfactory IE etymology. These are coastal words, which
might be explained as substratum words, though this is admittedly
weak as an explanation..
I do not see how *huppian is related to "jump". Or is one thinking
of nasal infix etc.? How to explain the j/h ?
Btw _hippe_ in Westerlauwer Frisian is cognate to *huppian.
Henno Brandsma
PS Am I the only one who gets lots of html junk over this list?
I'd much prefer it if postings were plain ascii, with proper line
breaking (many messages just have overflowing lines etc, which makes
for unpleasant reading!).