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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: French words that are now anglicized BranShea #205352 04/06/12 11:31 AM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Faldage Carpal Tunnel Faldage Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 13,803 Originally Posted By: BranShea It's taken on the good English plural beeves Do you really consider words that passed from English to American as loanwords too? It's all English to me. Beef is from the Old French buef, (Modern French boeuf). The f > v in the plural is from the Old English voicing of unvoiced consonants between vowels, cf. wife/wives, knife/knives. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted French words that are now anglicized tiberall 04/03/12 04:01 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized BranShea 04/05/12 11:30 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized gooofy 04/05/12 12:29 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized BranShea 04/05/12 06:36 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized gooofy 04/08/12 12:13 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized BranShea 04/09/12 07:09 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized zmjezhd 04/05/12 12:58 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized Faldage 04/05/12 07:57 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized BranShea 04/06/12 07:46 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized Faldage 04/06/12 11:31 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized BranShea 04/06/12 11:40 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized tedstoddard 04/06/12 06:31 PM Re: French words that are now anglicized LlamaLadySG 04/11/12 04:00 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized tsuwm 04/11/12 04:32 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized Jackie 04/12/12 02:35 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized Faldage 04/12/12 11:02 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized Jackie 04/13/12 01:36 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized Tromboniator 04/13/12 11:08 AM Re: French words that are now anglicized zmjezhd 04/13/12 03:08 PM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Website Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,316 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 342 guests, and 3 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 30 A C Bowden 13 ddrinnan 1 LukeJavan8 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 tsuwm 10,542 wofahulicodoc 10,533 LukeJavan8 9,916 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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