From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56290
Date: 2008-03-30
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From: Brian M. Scott
>>> makk "eat"
>>> smag "taste"
>> What Celtic words are you thinking of?
>> French mâcher < *makk-
> Isn't this just from Lat. mastica:re? (and the <^> in
> French usually implies the existence of a lost <s>,
> confirmed by the Old(?) French maschier)
Definitely OFr: Greimas gives a date of 1190, citing
Godefroy (~1190 in Petit Robert).
<http://atilf.atilf.fr/dendien/scripts/tlfiv4/showps.exe?p=combi.htm;java=no>
moves it back to ~1185, quoting Marie de France, Purgatoire
St Patrice, 413 ds T.-L.: <E cele denz que vus avez,
Qu'unkes vïande ne mascha>.
I'm no expert, but OFr <maschier> looks to me like a regular
outcome of VLat. <masticare>.
Brian
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Ok
Let's say this word is not clear enough.
Just for the fun :
Salish has m_k "eat"
and Arabic had m_dh._q "chew"
Arnaud
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