Re: [tied] Boss

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 20:39:53 +0200, Frank Verhoft
<frank.verhoft@...> wrote:

><<<OED2 says that Du. <baas> 'master' was formerly 'uncle' and
>is "supposed to be related to Ger. _base_ female cousin, OHG
>_basa_ 'aunt'".<<<
>
>I checked out three Dutch etymological dictionaries:
>1. Vercouille (1925): Baas < father's brother, basa, father's sister.
>Followed by the rather peculiar explanation that the PIE word was a compound
>with *pater-, and that initial *p- changed to b, rather than to f.
>2. Van Wijck/Haeringen (1949): the link with basa is very uncertain
>3. Van Dale (2000): Eymology unknown.

4. De Vries/de Tollenaere (1991): Etymology unknown.

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