Re: Dream and rève

From: Anthony Appleyard
Message: 44612
Date: 2006-05-17

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "squilluncus" <grvs@...> wrote:
> It's rêve avec circonflexe, which suggests derivation from 'resve'.
> Etymology seems to be an enigma: ...

French circumflex formerly meant "long vowel". Sometimes that long
vowel came from vowel + [s], but not always: e,g, [a^ge] = "age" came
via Old French [eage] from Latin [aetaticum]].