Re[2]: [tied] Re: Six, -ts- > -ks-

At 8:40:41 AM on Saturday, February 14, 2004, Miguel
Carrasquer wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:04:45 +0000, tgpedersen
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>>How would you explain the French spelling with <-x> in
>>many placenames, eg Caix, presumably once /-s^/?

> As I said, French -x normally has two origins:

> - as a ligature for final -us < *-ls
> - as a Latinizing spelling for -idz (voiz ~ voix because
> of vox, etc.)

> According to http://crehangec.free.fr/pic.htm, the
> etymology of Caix is simply Quai. The -x is spurious.

Dauzat & Rostaing make it a Picard form of OFr <chas> (Lat.
<capsum> 'maison', by extension 'ferme' and then 'village'.
Unfortunately, they have no early forms, so I don't know if
this is more than a guess.

Brian