This etymology is interesting to me. Not so much for how you are using
it but for what it reveals, personally to me...
My last name, Memmott is considered a Welsh name... But, the history
of the family has some roots in Scotland and in Sheffield as well...
As knife makers... not writing knifes, or knifes as weapons, but for
the butchering of meat...
(also in comb. OHG. meMMisahs, meMMirahs, MHG. meMMeres, meMMer,
mod.G. messer knife = OE. m£teseax 'meat-knife'
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:56:18 -0700
lanny quarles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
here's Raymond..
http://www.raymondscott.com/
and the Northumbrian is from the etymology section for 'sax' n.1 in
the OED Second Ed. CDROM vers. 3.1:
[OE. seax, sex, sæx (also in comb. Northumb. writsæx 'writing-knife',
i.e. pen) = OFris. sax, OS., MLG., OHG., MHG. saks
(also in comb. OHG. meMMisahs, meMMirahs, MHG. meMMeres, meMMer,
mod.G. messer knife = OE. m£teseax 'meat-knife'), ON.
sax (Sw., Da. sax scissors):-OTeut. *sahsom, f. root *sah-, sag- to
cut: see href="x:saw:n 1"saw n.1
In the well-known story related by Geoffrey of Monmouth after
'Nennius', the signal given by Hengist to his Saxons for
the treacherous slaughter of their British hosts appears in the form
'Nemet oure saxas'. The OE. form would be Nimað
éowre seax, the n. being uninflected in the plural. The two earliest
MSS. of 'Nennius' (11th c.) have respectively saxas
and sexa.]
heretis
lq
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: Re: writsæx: jetty
Don't know Raymond Scott & where was the Northunbrian from? Thanks,
Alan,
following thru -
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, lanny quarles wrote:
I originally was going to call it "Clearly from Marker"
but I changed my mind.. Good Catch!
writsæx is Northumbrian for pen, literally "writing-knife"
Raymond Scott's 'Girl at a Typewriter' is playing...
:)
lvlq
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: writsæx: jetty
Any relationship to Chris Marker or Chris's Marker? Or Chris's Mark
Her?
or Chris, Mark Her?
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