That's interesting, Elizabeth: confirms something I was checking out earlier
today, that that sense of 'went into a decline' (died of a broken heart)
pace Jemmy Grove for love of Barbara Allen, is similarly preserved in the
Dutch past participle 'afgetakeld' (_tackled off_ as I've known students to
anglicise it) from aftakelen: go/run to seed~~go to pot, be on the decline,
decay, go downhill.
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Van: Elizabeth James <[log in to unmask]>
Aan: <[log in to unmask]>
Verzonden: vrijdag 17 mei 2002 0:29
Onderwerp: Re: singing hinnies
> The song (with music) is reproduced in the third of Geoffrey
> Summerfield's anthologies 'Voices', (Penguin 1968) (last mentioned on
> this list a couple of years ago). The phrase is glossed there 'sadly
> fallen off'.
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> >'sair fyelled' : 'sorely disappointed / neglected' might sharpen the
> tone of
> >personal rebuke, but sounds suspiciously modern.
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