Re: Bunty.

And Rosta (and others) write:
>Lars Finsen, On 19/06/2008 17:10:
>>Hi,
>>I have a question for experts in English language history. If Old English
>>had acquired a loan-word /bunty/, what should we expect as the outcome in
>>later English? Bounty /baunti/?
>>
>>I am thinking of Bunty as an old name for my conworld, from Suraetua bun =
>>copper + ty = land. If a land north of Scotland later were known as
>>Bountyland, it might attract a lot of immigration, I guess.
>
>Are you simply trying to find out what the modern outcome of an OE _bunty_
>wd be, or are you trying to find out what OE form cd have given ModE
>_bounty_, perhaps with the idea that the common noun _bounty_ does not in
>fact come, via French, from Latin _bonitas_?
>
>Maybe _bounty_ truly did come from _bonitas_, and it influenced
>_Bounty(land)_ by a kind of folk-etymology, if _Bountyland_ is reputed to
>be a land of plenty or of rich ores?
>
Would "bounty" be related to "boon"? both < Fr. bon(ne) or (learned
borrowing) Lat. bonus