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Re: USAGE: Dutch v or f (was: Grimm's Law)

From:Matthew Bladen <matthew.bladen@...>
Date:Friday, April 19, 2002, 17:17
Friday, April 19, 2002, 7:16:23 AM, Christophe Grandsire wrote:

CG> But that's only my intuition as native speaker of French. I may be wrong. I
CG> don't know the origin of the word "foutre".

I would guess it comes from Latin _futuere_ (with the same robust
meaning as the rest of them... ;)
--
Matthew