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Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Monday, March 20, 2000, 1:35
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:

> Tom Wier wrote: > > What you're talking about, incidentally, has happened quite often before. > > Modern English "apron" used to be "napron"; "orange" used to be > > "norange" (cf. Spanish <naranja>, IIRC). In both of those cases, it was > > the reverse of the one you mention: the /n/ gravitated to the article, so that > > "a norange" becomes "an orange", etc., but qualitatively the same kind of > > process. > > In the same direction is "ekename" --> "nickname"; where "eke" meant > "replacement" or something like that.
ecce, OE, "also", maybe. Just guessing.
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