Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"

En réponse à Mark J. Reed :

>I gather that "sauf" by itself means "except", and I was wondering if this 
>were
>related to the identical (somewhat outdated) meaning of English "save".
>This is purely idle speculation on my part, and I have done no research;
>I just thought someone here might already know the answer.
Well, others have already answered correctly, but I thought you might to 
know that a native speaker of French agrees :)) . Indeed, I've always taken 
French "sauf" and English "save" to be cognates.

Christophe Grandsire.

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