From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 56368
Date: 2008-04-01
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From: Rick McCallister
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [tied] Gemination in Celtic
ok but akouter is from Latin,
*smakk- acquired a prothetic vowel in standard French
but perhaps not in N. French.
Check it out
How does N. French treat Gmc toponyms beginning in sC-
(C for any clustered consonant)?
Note that the Norman French changed the endearing name
of Snottingham into Nottingham --or so I've read, and
I think there was a Stuttingham > Tuttingham (vel
sim.)
So if Norman French did something similar in England,
something analogous may have occured in N. French.
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Ecuires < skura (Saxon)
Etaples < stapel (Dutch)
Escalles < skali
Estournel < strumel
Estrun < strom
Escobecques < skaldu-bek
There are clear examples
with a e i o ou
that initial vowels never fall.
Arnaud
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