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Christian Thalmann scripsit:
> Strange... it's not related to the size of a cow hide then? ;-)
Not at all. The merger results from the collapse of /y/ > /i/ in Middle
English: hide (of animal) is OE hyd, Lat cutis, whereas hide (of land)
is OE hi:d, Lat civis.
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