Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 1 no. 87 October 11, 1991 1) Evidence, please (Bob Goldberg) 2) Birnbaum on _daven_ (Mikhl Herzog) 3) Housekeeping (Noyekh Miller) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 13:38:15 PDT From: xidak!poseidon!bob@uunet.UU.NET Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.86 To: MENDELE@Vax1.Trincoll.Edu Message-id: <9110102038.AA21730@poseidon.xidak.COM> X-Envelope-to: MENDELE Mikhl Herzog: I don't "believe everything the [sic] tell" me! In particular, I don't give any credence to your unsupported denial of the origin of the German "heirat", since you supply no counter-origin or contradictory evidence. Citing a half dozen other suspicious word origins, as you do, is irrelevant to refuting the two I cited. So if you really know what you're talking about, how about giving the reasons that you know that the origin of the German "heirat" "has nothing too [sic] do with" the Hebrew "harey at". 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 03:00 EDT From: ZOGUR@CUVMB.BITNET Subject: RE: Mendele Vol 1.86 Birnbaum's "conclusion" about "davnen", in effect that we don't know, is one that should be reached more frequently. One of the interesting, possible connections with "doenen", by the way, is the -av- of davnen. It places the word in a class with word like "oyer" with Litvish variant "ever", "zoyer" with variants "zaver/zover", "boyen" with variant "boven". Now, guess what: in Belorussia, we find a "doynen" variant of "davnen". Suggestive, no? Still, we really don't know. 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 From: nmiller@trincc Subject: Housekeeping Mendele is taking a week off and will resume mirtseshem on Monday, Oct. 21. Sorry for the break. Meanwhile, please keep submitting material. ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 1.87