Re: OT: English -uice
| From: | Arthaey Angosii <arthaey@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, July 28, 2006, 22:17 |
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On 7/28/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Is sluice in ME? I'd suspect a later borrowing of Dutch sluis, again with an
> attempt to get the weird diphthong right.
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 spelling with ui (cf. juice) did not come into general use until
the 18th century.]
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