From: Rick McCallister
Message: 61896
Date: 2008-12-05
--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
. . .
>
> > And what about l'outre "otter" > la
> loutre ?
> > is loutre a new word when compared to outre ?
>
> Not that it matters, but Fr. loutre comes from lat. lu:tra.
> Of course
> there are cases when new phonetic material is added to a
> word through
> univerbation, reanalysis or the like, but see below.
Spanish reanalyzes via both articles --it has utria, lutria and nutria