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Article #3027Re: use and meaning of "etang" in French
From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 00:00
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J. Kanze wrote: > > Yes. In the case of coastal "etang", I would probably use the word > lagune in English, but certainly not pond. I've always associated the > word with stagner (English stagnate), which would associate it with > water that wasn't moving: a pond as opposed to a river, but a lagune as > opposed to a sea with tides (except that the Mediteranean doesn't have > tides, at least to speak of). > In English it's "lagoon", borrowed from French or Italian in the later 17th century (first attestation 1673). It's curious that the spelling didn't come in with the word. Is there maybe something Celtic it got attracted to? -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@worldnet.att.net
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