Re: Push

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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
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> Most s of standard French are sh in northern Dialect and this
> feature is very well kept in English.
>
> Cf. coussin = coushin = English cushion
> hence pousser = pousher = English push

That *pousher must be the one OED calls 'unattested'?
What do you think they mean by that?

Torsten

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Old French has polser/poulser < pulsare
There's no particular problem to imagine that po(u)(l)sher could exist in
Northern Dialect.

A.