From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 60169
Date: 2008-09-20
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From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> 2. On the one hand, V says the word must have passed into Old French
late (p441) because you don't get 'chanif' but 'canif' - (which, btw
shows a profound ignorance of Picard, which preserves k,
So do many langue d'oc dialects. Why is this relevant?
> and you'd expect to find canif if the word was coming from the
Germanic)
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Modern canif is attested only in 1441 as quenif.
Canivet and cnivet are attested before, in 1175.
The proto-type can only be a loanword *knif-
Arnaud