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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:18:27 +0200
From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Subject: Re: Spellings
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav:

> >   English "strike" -> "Streik".
> 
> I very much doubt that "Streik" is a loan word. I'd rather say
> "strike" and "Streik" evolved from the same germanic word.

You would have to explain
- why "Streik, streiken" refer *only* to going on strike. This is
  a thoroughly 19th century concept. There should at least be
  residuals of an older meaning.
- how the word escaped the High German sound shift, -k- -> -ch-.
  You could posit a Low German connection, I guess. I'm not sure
  whether this conflicts with the diphthongization.
- in particular why there are apparently 19th century documents
  that demonstrate an original spelling "Strike" that shifted to
  "Streik".

I don't doubt the Duden etymological dictionary's claim that the
word is a 19th century loan.

The German cognate of "to strike" is "streichen".

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de


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