Having visited our ancestral village in Kruchten, I learned that it was one of the most economically deprived areas of Germany (due to the fluctuation of German and French rule), with the unlikelihood that there was much of a classical education.However, the area around Trier, Germany, was one of the largest Roman outposts in the Roman Empire.My question: Is there a possibility that our Minnesotan words could possibly have originated in the Latin of the Roman Empire?”Ĭalls to animals are numerous, and linguists from various countries have discussed them many times. What I’m wondering is how these words came to survive in a German-speaking colony immigrating in the 1840’s and ‘50’s with education rarely achieving the eighth grade and little English spoken the first hundred years in America. I know that boss comes from the Latin bos and sooey from the Latin sus. When calling the pigs to the trough, we called ‘sooey, sooey’ or ‘sui, pick, pick’. Our correspondent writes: “Growing up on a farm in the 1940’s and ‘50’s, I remember that we called our milk cows from the pasture by calling: ‘Come boss, come boss’, lengthening the vowel the second time. Below I’ll answer the questions received since the last Wednesday of May.Ĭalls to animals.
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