Re: Norman French (was: Thorn vs Eth)

At 8:43 PM +0000 07/13/02, Ray Brown wrote:
>On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 01:39 , Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>
>>En réponse à Ray Brown <ray.brown@...>:
>
>{agreed bits snipped}
>
>>>only
>>>make intelligent guesses.   One wonders what evidence your book gives
>>>for
>>>[T]
>>>and [D] having disappeared everywhere by the XIth cent.
>>
>>Orthographic mistakes, forgotten final |t|s showing that it was not
>>pronounced
>>anymore.
>
>Fair enough - but the {th} at the end of _faith_ came from somwhere & the
>word
>comes from French.
Could the -th be the same as found on words like truth, width,
length, breadth, filth, strength, health, etc? The French root would
then be fai- ...

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                  Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

Man deth swa he byth thonne he mot swa he wile.
'A man does as he is when he can do what he wants.'

- Old English Proverb