From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 243
Date: 1999-11-12
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From: Henno Brandsma
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 12, 1999 2:00 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Jump
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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..
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Thanks for the Frisian. *Huppian was discussed as a case of
onomatopoeia; we didn't claim it was related to _jump_.
Piotr