Re: new Klingon spelling
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 6, 2004, 19:32 |
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At 17:18 6.1.2004, Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>What about a 'dirk'? Looking in the OED online, I find that they
>discredit a Gaelic origin for the word. The Scots word was 'durk' or
>'dork' (stop snickering), itself possibly borrowed from N. Germanic
>'dolk' (German 'dolch') "dagger".
>
>Dirk "the knife"
According to http://www.behindthename.com:
DIRK m Dutch, English
Pronounced: DURK
Short form of DIEDERIK. This is also the word for a type of dagger.
DIEDERIK m Dutch
Dutch form of THEODORIC
THEODORIC m Ancient Germanic
Pronounced: the-AWD-o-rik
Means "ruler of the people" from the Germanic elements þeud "people" and
ric "power". Theodoric the Great was a 6th-century king of the Ostrogoths
who eventually became the ruler of Italy.
IIRC _Thiudareiks_ /TIwDari:ks/ in actual Gothic.
BTW it was recently established that this is Lietur! in Quenya!
/BP 8^)
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