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eamoniski skrev:
Hello, I'm probably missing something obvious, but can anyone tell me the origin of Old French "anquenuit," Old Provencal "ancuei" and (I presume) Venetian "ancuo" - all meaning "today"? Cheers, Eamon
Meyer-L�bke doesn't list it, which may mean that he didn't
have a clue... He does list ANQUE 'auch' (i.e. 'aussi' --
English lacks an unambiguous gloss here...) as doubtful
but possibly from AD UNQUE or ANCORA, which itself is from
UNQUAM HORA. The Old Proven�al forms puzzles me, as OP
is normally non-diphthongizing. May it be AD UNQUE HODIE?
I'm jus' speculating. The OF seems perspicuous AD UNQUE
NOCTE, but that may be a false impression.
However I've requested my uni library to acquire the
following book:
Dizionario etimologico dei dialetti italiani
Manlio Cortelazzo, Carla Marcato
723 pagine, Utet Libreria, 34 Euro
<http://www.utetlibreria.it/html/scheda.phtml?ID=1961&chk=1&casa=1>
Amazingly they usually comply with my acquisition requests
if the book doesn't exixt in some other Swedish uni library,
and if it does I can get it on interlibrary loan at no cost.
Gotta love 'em! The catch is that this book doesn't exist
at another library, so they'll acquire it, and since it's
a dictionary it'll be placed in the reference section, and
I'll not be able to get it on home loan. Ah well, you can't
get everything! :-)
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/BP 8^)
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