Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

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From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:11 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> From: "bmscotttg" <BMScott@...>

>> Olof von Feilitzen, in The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday
>> Book, says that '[b]efore _r_, especially _r_ + consonant, _e_ and
>> _a_ tend to interchange in OFr generally', citing K. Dammeier, Die
>> Vertauschung von _er_ und _ar_ im Wortschatz der heutigen
>> französischen Schriftsprache, Dissertation, Berlin, 1903.
>> In any case, that point of view conflicts with some basic data :

>> French chaise, chaire = English chair both with /e/
>> French charge = English charge both with /a/
>> French chercher = English search : French has /e/
>> French marcher = English march : both with /a/

OF _sarge_, later _serge_ (16th century) 'serge' (earlier _sarge_ in
English)

OF _pardoner_, _perduner_ < Med. Latin _perdo:na:re_ 'to pardon'

OF _persone_, (law F. _parsone_) > E. _person_, _parson_

OF _jargoun_, _gergon_, _gargon_ > E. _jargon_

All from Onions.

Richard.

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ok, there is a handful of examples where e and a interchange.
but the claim that "e and a tend to interchange in OFr generally" does not
seem to work.
Be it from Germanic or Latin CerC and CarC are most often kept separated.

Arnaud