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

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

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

> - as a ligature for final -us < *-ls

For those who haven't seen it, it looks rather like the
digit <9>, or a rough outline of a human ear. It's easy to
see how it developed into <x> when you set it beside
contemporary forms of <x>.

> - as a Latinizing spelling for -idz (voiz ~ voix because
> of vox, etc.)

Brian