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> > Not all French dictionnaries agree on that.
> > Arnaud
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There's a _maquer_ 'to break hemp(?)', next to OFr.
_macher_ 'squeeze, press'. Are these the words you are thinking of?
The form without palatalization must be from Norman or Picard.
macher is attested without -s- early on, so it must be
from "*makka:re". A cognate is found in Breton mac'hañ 'oppresser',
which may have been borrowed early from Gallo-Romance. There are
apparently also cognates in other Romance languages.
Anders
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In my own native dialect,
the word *mak- is "to eat"
j-mak- "I eat".
This is what I'm refering to
and you confirm that this *makk-
cannot be from *masticare.
So we can now compare it
to *smag "taste, have taste"
Arnaud
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