Re: OT: English -uice

Quoting Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...>:

> OED has this to say about "sluice":
>
> [ad. OF. escluse (-clusse, -clouse, etc.; mod.F. écluse), = Sp. and
> Pg. esclusa, late and med.L. exclusa (also sclusa, etc.), fem. sing.
> of L. exclūsus, pa. pple. of exclūdere to shut out, EXCLUDE v.
>
> OF. is also the source of MDu. sluse, sluyse, sluus (Du. sluis, WFris.
> slús), MLG. sluse, sluze (LG. slüse, slüs, G. schleuse), Da. sluse,
> Sw. slus. For the English forms which represent the late L. clūsa see
> CLOW n.1
The Swedish is _sluss_, with a doubled final, actually.

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