From: mailto:m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...
<<<"Frank Verhoft" <fa478077@...>
wrote:<<<
Frank Verhoft" <fa478077@...> QUOTED
from a previous mail.
<<< My [=Alex's] dictionary means the
German "frisch" should be a loan from the early Romance,see Italian "fresco",
French "frais" The Italian word is seen as a loanword from
French.<<<
<<<By whom?!<<<
I'm curious too which source suggests
this...
<<<It's not from French but from Frankish "frisk", as
given by all Italian scholars. Probably someone made once again a
confusion,
between French and Frankish. <<<
Can only agree upon that.
Regards,
Frank, speaker of a modern version of Old Low
Franconian (and French too).