Re: Asian migration to Scandinavia

On 2008-09-17 00:15, Arnaud Fournet wrote:

> Dear M Gasiorowski,
>
> I'm not sure I understand your point.
>
> Do these words owe their /a/ to Old French or to a Middle English
> development ?
>
> It seems the latter option is the right one !?

Late Middle/Early Modern English. Oops, sorry, it was me who had misread
your point about Old French. On the other hand, the list of words with
OFr. arC < erC (or with a variable pronunciation) could also be
extended: <parfit, marchëant, parchemin ~ perchemin> etc.

Piotr