Re: Push

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> >
> > Skeat derives 'push' from Latin pulsa:re.
> > Why the -sh then?
> > > Torsten
> >
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> Dialectal feature of Northern French, I suppose.
>
> std finiss-ent
> dial finish-ent > E finish

But cf. the same 2nd conj. in Italian
finisco
finisci /s^/
finisce /s^/

It's s^ > s in French.

Capísh?



Torsten