Re: Bunty.
| From: | And Rosta <and.rosta@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 20, 2008, 10:01 |
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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/?
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> 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?
--And.
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