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Offline StJohn

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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2020, 18:43:54 »
OED rates it "not very plausible"'

Where did you get that? I just checked The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (print 1996, online 2003) and found it agrees with Macruran:

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LORD

master, ruler, †husband OE.; designation of rank XIV; peer of the realm XV. OE. hlāford, once hlāfweard, f. Gmc. *χlaib- LOAF + *ward- keeper, WARD1. The etymol. sense expresses the relation of the head of a household to his dependants who ‘eat his bread’. The word is, like LADY, a peculiarly Eng. formation. It was reduced to one syll. (XIV) by the fall of v in lōverd and contr. of the vowels.

Are you familiar with more recent etymological breakthroughs?

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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #21 on: May 08, 2020, 01:05:10 »
She's referring to the image I posted:



It's to do with lady, not lord. The source of the image is the reliable Online Etymology Dictionary: https://www.etymonline.com/word/lady

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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2020, 08:25:41 »
I see. Well, the OED may be sceptical, but their colleagues next door are happy to go with it (same source as my previous post):

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LADY

†mistress of a household; (arch.) female ruler; (Our L.) the Virgin Mary OE.; woman of superior position (hence as a title); wife XIII; woman of refinement XIX. OE. hlǣfdige, f. hlāf LOAF + *-diġ- knead (cf. OE. dǣġe kneader of bread, female (farm) servant, dairy-woman; also DOUGH); like LORD, peculiar to Eng. The OE. g. hlǣfdiġan (ME. ladie) is repr. in Lady Day (ME. ure lefdi day XIII, i.e. ‘Our Lady's day’); so Lady chapel XV; also in plant-names, as lady smock XVI, and ladybird.

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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2020, 13:44:12 »
Of course, which is why I dismissed the Oxford ED assertion of implausibility! Get those princesses baking, I say!  :bdaycake: :whip:
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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #24 on: May 10, 2020, 09:23:23 »
Of course, which is why I dismissed the Oxford ED assertion of implausibility! Get those princesses baking, I say!  :bdaycake: :whip:

Be sure to upgrade them to the new princess arms first!
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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #25 on: May 10, 2020, 10:50:41 »
If they receive those arms they must produce only the largest cakes!
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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #26 on: May 13, 2020, 06:58:59 »
If they receive those arms they must produce only the largest cakes!

But, of course! They must feed the entire kingdom!

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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #27 on: August 06, 2020, 13:32:16 »
Just a bump, since the proper pictures are on the German site now. As anticipated, nothing very exciting (usual collection of furniture, in the usual collection of pinks and golds) - though the bag of gold has had a piping nozzle added and is now an icing bag!

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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #28 on: August 06, 2020, 13:52:09 »
You have good eyesight, Oliver, I can't see that piping bag on the Catalogue pictures. Is it shown somewhere else?
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Re: Princess Academy
« Reply #29 on: August 06, 2020, 14:24:47 »
The 'full' pages for the sets now are up on the German website (if that makes sense)

https://www.playmobil.de/schlosskonditorei/70451.html#imageMain2