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Re: verbs in compounds (was: Re: epithets (taHqeq))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jun 16 21:18:57 1993
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From: Ken_Beesley.PARC@xerox.com
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1993 14:17:11 PDT
In-Reply-To: "krenath@clubs.ece.scarolina:edu:Xerox's message of Wed, 16 Jun 19
Eric Koske:
>>Off the top of my head, 'window'
might be assumed to be 'wind'+'ow' though only in a very philosophical
sense would we think that the purpose of such an object is to injure the
wind.<<
Off the top of my head, "window" was historically a "windwe" or wind-way, a
path or "way" for the wind to pass. Phonetically, this -we ending went to some
kind of /o/ vowel in standard English, reflected in the modern spelling. In
many dialects, the -we ending went to schwa (@), resulting in pronunciations
like /wind@/.
Phonetically, at least, similar things happened to the Middle English sparwe
(sparrow) and arwe (arrow). The last time I read Chaucer, I found a few
others, but they have since slipped my mind.
Ken Beesley
