Roosevelt is a Dutch name too. It means field of roses. Antares, Amsterdam, Holland where music is.......... > From: "Richard Moody" <remoody@midstatesd.net> > Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:53:31 -0500 > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Subject: Re: alligatored > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: antares <antares@EURONET.NL> > To: <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 9:04 AM > Subject: alligatored > > > | > Say does "moody" really mean "out of tune" in Dutch? Or was > someone > | > pulling my leg? > | > ---wondering ric > | > | Zey vur puhlink yor lekk, mein Freund! > > They are pulling your leg, my friend ?? Say Dutch is easy.... > | > | It is a misinterpretation of the word stemming (in German : > Stimmung), > | because (and this is silly about the Dutch language) we have a > double > | meaning for the word 'stemming'. > | one is mood, and the other means tuning. > | > | Now I am not a learned person, anybody can tell that immediately > except my > | best paying customers (; .....but according to me all this fuss > about > | stemming and mood etc has (possibly) to do with the word stem which > means > | voice. > | A literal translation of voicing would be 'stemmen'.. to give it a > voice, a > | stem. > | On the other hand, if I would say in English : I am in an unpleasant > mood, > | the Dutch translation could be "Ik ben ontstemd" dis-voiced..without > a > | voice. > | Stemmen also means : to vote.. to bring out your 'voice' > | Lastly, there is "stemmingmakerij" : the making of mood > | > | Mood is stemming, but not the 'Stimmung' > | Out if tune in Dutch could be : > | > | Vals (false) > | Ontstemd (with a double meaning) > | > | innit fun? > | > | > | Antares, > | > > For some reason I thought there was a word in Dutch like "mood" or > moody" that meant out of tune. I began to wonder if my English > origins then were actually Dutch. Could "Moody" have come from the > Netherlands? After all in a near by community settled by many Dutch > in 1900 there are names with oo like Boom, Cool > Degroot, Tooley, Vanderboom, etc. (no Roosevelts though). There was > much crossing the Channel of the English and Dutch. The Moody family > has been on this side of the "pond" since 1768 with a grant from Geo > III so if there is a Dutch connection it is lost in the mists of > e. ---ric > > >
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