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Re: Bucket

From:ROGER MILLS <rfmilly@...>
Date:Monday, August 27, 2007, 15:37
I don't know if this got sent or not; I made a booboo while sidetracked to
google.......

Charlie wrote:
> >Dmitry Ivanov <lingwadeplaneta@...> wrote: > > >Does anybody have an idea why the Indonesian word for "bucket" - > >ember - is so close to the Gipsy word for "bucket" - embra - ? > >I am reminded that, when used as a surname, "bucket" is >pronounce /bu'ke/ :-) >
And they shop at that bastion of Good Taste [tar\'Ze], right? In the meantime, what about that Gypsy word? Seems unlikely they were unfamiliar with buckets until they got to Holland.......? This makes me wonder if Du. emmer is a native word, or itself a borrowing. Can't find a Du. etymological dictionary just offhand.... There is some discussion of the origin of Du. kalkoen 'turkey' here-- http://www.summagallicana.it/Volume1/peru.htm (scroll down to the discussion in English) The word evidently dates in Du. from the 1500s. Seems it isn't < _Calcutta_ (founded or at least named in the 1600s), but rather Calicut (founded much earlier) in southern India.