Re: [Cz-L] Der Ham

Linguistic Curiosity,
  So it comes from the Moldovian period.
   How old is it then - 500 years ?
   Who is there to remember ? A few old-timers -Jews and Ruthens.
    How much longer ? Not too much.
     I still remember the Elektrische (tram) conductor ,turning the brake=
 
handle and
     shouting :" Ham - aussteigen !"
Hardy
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From: "flo heymann" <floheymann_at_hotmail.com>
To: <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 3:44 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] Der Ham


Hermann Sternberg, in "Zur Geschichte der Juden in Czernowitz", in Gold,
vol. II, p. 28, explain in a footnote that the origin of the word is not
clear. He says that it is a "sprachliches Kuriosum". Perhaps it was because=
 
it existed there a long time on the place a panel, carrying the drawing of =
a
wheel, with, in three languages - Rumanian, German, Ukrainian - “Slow
down! ”, "Hemme das Rad", because the place was inclined. Or, that came=
 
 from the Moldavian “Ham”, “harness of horse” and has been maintaine=
d in th
languagen a long time after the Moldovian Period.

Florence Heymann
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