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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:22 pm
Niggard - (substatif) "Miser." (adjective) "Miserly." (verb) "To Stint, Supply Sparingly." All of these forms are archaic. They dervive from the Middle English form "nigard" = "miser" or "miserly." There is also a Middle English form "nekard." These come from the Anglo-Saxon "hneaw" = "mean, niggardly, stingy, miserly." It is also related, and possibly derived from to the Old Norse "hnÀggr" = "niggardly, stingy," but can also mean "a blow, strike," related to "hnÀggva" = "to strike, beat, rob." Thus, we get the implication of an etymology meaning something like "robber," or someone who skims off the top of deals, The term "nigard" was used by Chaucer in 1374, so we can clearly see that it pre-dates the pejorative "******."
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 7:08 am
There's really no discussion here... Sure, there's a phonetic similarity between the words "******" and "niggard," but...obviously they have separate meanings; (it's doubtful that it was someone who was intelligent and well-educated in the history of the English language that came up with the racial slur. xd )
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 1:00 pm
yes I was trying to say there is no conection, not that it came up I just felt that there was a chance that a false etomology might be infered withing the lifetimes of the members
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