Re: OT: "kluge"/"kludge"

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From: "Nik Taylor" <yonjuuni@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: OT: "kluge"/"kludge"


> David Barrow wrote:
> > Sound = healthy,  from Old English_ gesund_
>
> Cognate to Gesundheit (sp?)?
>
More obviously cognate to "gesund", which compounds into "Gesundheit".  OE
|gesund|, however, is pronounced [jezund], I think, and the German is
prounounced [g@zUnt](That's how my imperfect German pronounciation does it,
anyway).

> > Sound = Noise, from Old French_ son_ from Latin_ sonus_
>
> Where did the /d/ come from?  Analogy with the similar-sounding _sound_?
>

The /d/ is quite new.  In ME it was |soun|, and the verb was |sounen|.