December 2011
14 posts
so an interesting thing about french is that
we take many words from that language, and often, when there’s an accent circonflexe over a vowel (in french), if there’s a word related to it in english, it will be transformed into an “s” after that same vowel. i made a list and it’s striking when you get a bunch of them together:
quête —> quest fenêtre (window) —> fenestrate côté (side)...
etymology o' clock
Puîné means younger in french (as in the younger of two siblings). This comes itself from two French words: puis (meaning after) and né (meaning born). Together, they mean later-born. As if that weren’t enough, our English word “puny” comes from this word “puîné”! So our “puny” is derived originally from the French for later-born.
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