Re: [romanceconlang] Etymology question

From: John Cowan (jcowan@reutershealth.com)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 07:20:49 EST


=?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=20van=20Steenbergen?= scripsit:

> Could someone tell me what the etymology is of the French word "encore"
> (Italian "ancora", Rumantsch "aunc", Romanian "înca")? I can't think of any
> reasonable Latin word; I was thinking of "coram", but somehow that doesn't
> sound right to me.

The bizarre but apparently uncontested etymology is HINC AD HORAM 'from this
[hour] to [that] hour'.

Hey, it's no worse than "ampersand" < "and per se &", as in "x y z and
per se [by itself] &".

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