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Romance Etymologies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Carlton C. Rice
Carlton C. Rice*
Affiliation:
Catawba College
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Provençal escacha, escaicha, escaissa, 'break with the teeth', 'break', 'tear', 'bite' is not mentioned by Meyer-Lübke. The forms escacha, escaissa seem to be regular reflexes of *excoactare, *excoactiare 'to smash', the ai in escaicha being due to the attraction of escaissa. Meyer-Lübke does mention French écacher 'to smash' along with French cacher 'to hide' as a doubtful derivative of *coacticare. These French words seem to be Provençal loanwords from *[ex]coactare. Provençal quicha 'to press', 'to pinch' must have some other source.

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Research Article
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Language , Volume 9 , Issue 4-Part1 , December 1933 , pp. 309 - 312
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Copyright © 1933 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Rom. Etym. Wb.2,3

2 1. 32.

3 Rom. Gram. 2. 448f.

4 Op. cit.3

5 Op. cit.3

6 Et. Wb. d. rom. Sprachen 660 (1887).

7 Die germanischen Elemente in der französischen und provenzalischen Sprache. Französische Studien 6. 1 (1887).

8 Op. cit. 177.

9 Op. cit.3

10 Op. cit. 29.