The Frisian Phrase H ikke en Tein and One’s Place of Origin

The Frisian Phrase Hikke en Tein and One’s Place of

Origin

Hindrik SijensFryske Akademy

22, april 2023Fryske Akademy 2

Hikke en tein yn Tytsjerksteradiel

‘born and bred in Tytsjerksteradiel’

The Frisian Phrase Hikke en Tein and One’s Place of Origin


hikje = ‘to jolt, to emerge from (the egg)’.

German: hecken ‘to brood, to cub’

English: to hatch: ‘to bring forth (young) from the egg’, ‘to cause young to emerge from (the egg) as by brooding or incubating’

Concept: ‘to beget offspring’



Gysbert Japiks, psalm 139:

‘Mijn bient’ wier naet uwt Jon eag-micke, / Da ’k ijn ’t oerschuwll teyn’ wirde’ in hicke’

‘my substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.’



• Frisian tein (derived from the tsjen): ‘to go, to move’, ‘to pull’

• Old Frisian tiâ, tiân: ‘to bring up, to raise’.

• German ziehen; erziehen: ‘to bring up, to raise’

• Dutch getogen , from tijgen, tien. Tijgen: ‘to bring up, to raise’.



tsjen used for the concepts1. ‘to generate, to sire, to procreate offspring’ 2. ‘to cover, to mate’, especially referring to

cattle and sheep:

• Sa krigen wy goed jongfee, troch in goed bolle tein (We got good young stock, sired by a by a bull of good quality). (Scheltema)

• Dy ko moat tein wurde (the cow should be covererd). (Salverda).



hikke + tein : ‘to generate, procreate’.

Psalm 139: ‘I was secretly woven together deep in the earth below.’

‘woven together’ = teyn’ ... in hicke.



Conclusion

Today:hikke en tein yn: ‘born and raised in

Tytsjerksteradiel’.

Historical:hikke en tein : ‘generated, procreated in ???’.


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The Frisian Phrase H ikke en Tein and One’s Place of Origin

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