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ORIGINS OF NAUTICAL PHRASES.

FAMILIAR FÖREIGN WORDS.

HOW BRITISH SAILORS HAVE BORROWED FROM ABROAD.

The international convention on board to which the steor," Anglo- | COSBOTB of these, the Italian “Safety of Life at Sea," which met Saxon name of a rudder, was ash mariners of the Middle Ages, its in London last summer, reached an ed. But Max Muller gave another was spread throughout the Mediter- agreement, subject to ratification by explanation. The word "board"-ranean. Either from these or from the Governments of the nations, now used in so many connections, Spanish navigators the French ac that after midnight on June 30, from a board of directors to be quired it, and our sailors took it 1931, helm or stearing orders on thehaviour that above board, or from from them. On the other hand. shipping of the world are to be

our word "boat" has been adopted transmitted according to a uniform

and adapted by other languages, code. On American and British

both Teutonic and Romance, sa in ships this will entail a revolution-

the French "bateau." ary change.'

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Helm Orders.

port"

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Latin Worda.

"prow'

"* Anchor," ."poop! come from Roman sailors, but they in turn learned them from Greek mariners. "Canna" means rush. in Latin, and from rushes "canvas" was spun. Long strings of worda in our language are derived from the Latin and Greek words for a ship, "navis" and "nats," in- of a church clading the "nave" and the BUSCA of unpleasant The Greeks detested

board and ledging to going on board-has, a cognata form in Ita- liun, berdo," moaning border or side. According to Muller, Italian seamen used to say "questo bordo " and quello bordo," this side and that side. In course of time thesa For centuries to port the helm contracted to "sto bordo" and has meant to steer the ship to thelo bordo," English sailors adopt right, and to starboard the helm to ing the terms and by confusion with steer to the left. After eight balls their own related word" board, on the night of June 30, 1931, steer calling them "starboard" and

larboard." ing orders will be employed in the direct sense, reversing their pre- It is strange that the alternative vious significance. An order con- word for larboard now used taining the word

or should be the same as the word for left will send the ship to the a harbour. Max Muller suggested left, and starboard".or right "the use came from · an to the right. The sailors of the phrase, “porta la timone," mean- nausia," caused by the rocking English-speaking nations are muching to carry the helm. perturbed as this disturbance of the the sense of harbour comes from the cherished traditions of the sea. Latin "porta" or gale, and a gato "Under no consideration what was so called by the Romans from ever," declared the Court of the their word" portare," to carry, be Honourable Company of Master Fenuse ploughs were carried over the Mariners, lately holden at the space where a gate was to be when Loudon Mansion House, will the boundary of a city was marked British seamen abandon the terms out by t furrows to which they and their forefathers have been accustained-namely, port and starboard." In American ports of the Atlantic and Pacific there is the same feeling.

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Italian sensationa

** Port

în | unstable motion to which, when they voyaged among their islands and inlets, "they were peculiarly liable owing to the construction of their ships and the strong gusty winds blowing about their const.

From Italy to Java. Nautical language contains many reminders that once the Italians were pre-eminent in ship-building Various suggestions have been and navigation. A few examples made to the orders containing.

brigantine' or its abbreviation one or the other of the pairs of brig" from "brigans," a soldier, words which will be adopted-pro-indicating an armed vessel; "pin

"from"

small pinnazza," bably either the single words "port" nace and," starboard or as suggested ship; mizzen-mast" from "mez- by the mastar mariners, for a period zano," meaning middle; "junk" juus bulrush, auch at any rate, as a safeguard, officers from will use the word "stear" before material being used in caulking "port" and "starbeard." That will not offend nautical sensibili

of a ship than landsmen wot of.

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scams; "steeve from "stivare, to pack tight. But-such are the subtleties of etymological learning,

We do not know whether it was from the Dutch or the Germans or the Danes that English sailors long

- from

'de ago borrowed "deck," ker meaning to cover, the deck being the covering of a ship. Hammock " they took. from Spanish seamen, who in turn had picked it up from the natives of the West Indies. Capatan" we also owe to the Spaniards.

Arabic Admiral.

That magnificent word "admiral" is derived, very curiously, from Arabic through French. When the the Arabs, they thought they had a French adopted "hmital” from complete word, whereas it menas commander of" with the word

ties, more important in the working in which hasty assumptions must be for "son" omitted. Then, when

Lo Bordo,”

stere

avoided "junk" as the name of a vessel comes from the Javanese native craft" djong," while dere" comes from the Latin through the Spanish "estivador.". not through the Italian.

Those that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters, bare strange words upon their lips, far-travelled, coming from divers tongues and through

Ships and Skips. centuries of sailing the seven seas. The word "ship" is entirely our Greeks and Carthaginians, Romana own, Teutonic in origin and allied and Norsemen Spanish and French, to shape. Of all the possessions Arabs and Dutch-many nations of the rovers who crossed the North, have striven for mastory of various seas, ruling the waves until dis- placed by a rival more powerful or more persevering, each leaving a legacy in the language shared by the two English-speaking nations now pre-eminent on all the oceans of the globe. The vocabulary of our seafaring folk, mingling with the motley mariners of the world in the harbours and on the high seas, is freighted with terms of curious etymology

"Steer-Board." "Starboard," most grammarians allege, is simply "steer-board" the

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we adopted it from the French, it was confused with the Latin word "admirare" and a letter "d" was stem," "hatch" "tar, tack,"

"Mast," inserted.

sail,"

spar,

"tackle," "yard," "scud," "heavo," "tide," "rope" and many more words came to England across the North Sea, but precisely whence and when we cannot tell.

The Normans brought to England "caulk," from "caquer," to squeeze, Sea to Britain, their ships were the and "hawser," from hausser," to most shapely. The Old Norse form. raise up or hoist. Flotsam" (or- was skip and skipa" meant iginally "floteson"), wreckage found to man a ship. When Norsemen Boating, "jetsam" (originally "get- settled in France and became Nor- teson"), goods thrown overboard to mans, the word developed into lighten the ship and, in modern

esquiper." They brought it te usage, washed ashore, and "lagan,' England and it became "equip," goods or wreckage lying on the bed used of fitting up and furnishing of the see, are three Norman- in general. "Vessel," derived French legal terms: The fotsar from the Latin, the Normans also and jetsam of many tongues bas brought as they did probably enriched Our ordinary speech, barge," which is a form of the through sailor's talk, with many word "bark" or "barque." This similar picturesque phrases and word was originally used by Celtic expressive metaphors about which tribes from whom the sailors of the tang of the salt sea breeze Rome learned it. From the suc- lingers.

Diary of Coming Events.

To-day, (February 18.)

Lammert's Auction: Stores and Furniture, 11 a..

Sanitary Board Meeting, 4.13 p.m.

ton.

Hockey Sim Shield, Club v. Navy, U.S.R.C. ground, 4.30 p.m.

Lawn Tennis: Open Singles. Queen's College: Prize Giving, 11

4.

Lecture by Father Joy, S.J, Yat Sen St. Patrick's Hall, 6.30 "Some Constructive Ideas of Sun

p.m.

.

Lantern Lecture by Dr. Welling, "The Life of a Mosquito,' Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.

Football Referees Association" Queen's Theatre: "The Show

Boat," Meeting, 0.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "The Show. World Theatre: "Trenta Cast Boat"

Case" and "The Adopted Son's World Theatre: "Trent's Lust Victory (Chinese picture).

and "The Adopted. Son's Star Theatre: "The Crowd. Case Victory" (Chinese picture).

Majestic Theatre: Wings." Ten Dances: Hong Kong and Star Theatre: "The Crowd!! Majestic Theatre: "Wings." Peninsula Hotels, 5 p.m. Tea Dances: Hong Kong and

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong and Fenicula Hotels, 8 p.m.

Peninsula Hotels, 8.30 p.m.

Thursday. (February 20.) Lammert's Auctions: Household European Mails:-Outward: Furniture, 461, Nathan Road, Kow- Europe vid Marseilles (Hector), 6lcon, 11 a.m.; 22, Humphrey's p.m.; Europe vid San Francisco Buildings, Kowloon, 2.30 p.m. and Siberia (Shinyo Maru), 6 p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong," Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels,

3.30 p.m.

Wednesday. (February 18.) Lammert's Auction: Household Furniture, 21A, Cameron Road (1st floor), Kowloon, 11 a.m.*

Fanling Hust and Race Club; Hounds Meet at Hunter's Arms,

2.30 p.m.

Helena May Musicale: Selections from light opers, 5.30 p.m.

Annual Meeting, European T.M.C.A.; Kowloon, 6 pm. A

Lecture by Prof. L. Forster, MA, on Post-Graduate Work in England, Union Assembly Room, 8.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre:: Trial."

Bellamy

World Theatre!** Wild Orchids" and "Westward Ho" (Chinese film)."

Star Theatre: Where East is, East."

Majestic Theatre: "Wing." Peninsula Hotel, & p.m.

Tea Dances: Hong Kong Hotel,

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong. Peninsula and Bepulse Bay Hotels. 8.30 p.m.

Friday, (February 21.)

Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Queen's Theatre: Trial.".

"Bellamy

World Theatre: Wild Orchids"

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and "Westward "Ho" (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: "Where East is East."

Majestic Theatre: "Wings." Ton Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels, & p.m.

Dinner Dances: Hong Kong and Peninsula Hoteles, 8.30 p.m.

European Mails: In ward: Europe vić Nogapatam (Coldiland), Saturday, (February 29.) Annual Race Meeting: Happy Valley, 3 p.m..

Golf: Bogny Pool, Fanling. Hockey: HK. Ladies v. Recreio.

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