From: Joao S. Lopes
Message: 45493
Date: 2006-07-24
At 8:12:22 PM on Saturday, July 22, 2006, Grzegorz
Jagodzinski wrote:
[...]
> And btw. Are there any theories on Latin (medieval?)
> uncia? (not present in my dictionaries)
It appears to be medieval, yes.
> A borrowing from Greek? When? With y > u, so rather old.
> Or maybe an inherited word? Anyway, it is the scientific
> name of snow leopard. And *l- disappeared here completely.
> Why?
I imagine that <uncea> is a medieval Latinization of OFr
<once>, the source of English <ounce>. The OFr looks like a
misanalysis of OFr <lonce> (as <l'once>), though the latter
is only attested a bit later.
[...]
Brian
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