Re: [tied] Re: Six, -ts- > -ks-

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 13:38:45 -0500, Jim Rader <jrader@...>
wrote:

>Actually, some northern and eastern dialects of Old French did develop
>[s^] from [ks]. Anglo-French and Middle English appropriated some of
>these forms--hence <cushion> in Mod. English as against French
><coussin>, <coissin>, from <*coxi:nus>, and doublets like <lease> and
><leash>.

I think that's not so much an evolution of Lat. -x- to /s^/, but a
secondary evolution of /is/, /js/ > /s^/.

Examples which have survived in English: finish < finisser (Latin -sc-),
anguish < angoisse (Latin -stj-), cushion < coissin (Lat -x-), fashion <
faisson (Lat -ktj-), cash < caisse (Lat. -ps-).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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