Re:Fornicating Under Consent of King
by rusk on Friday August 06, 2021 @04:50AM
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Interesting maybe that Coinín (sp?) is rabbit in modern Irish/Gaeilge and is pronounced in the former manner. Presumably it has some indo European roots, that didn’t spread into common English usage.
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Re:Fornicating Under Consent of King
by gutta-percha on Friday August 06, 2021 @05:12AM
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Rabbits were introduced to Ireland, so the word for them was probably borrowed from English or French.
Yeah, it was borrowed from Anglo-Norman.
Which is about as close to modern English as modern Irish is.
Yep. In fact, depending on which classification scheme of the Indo-European languages you follow, it could be argued it's closer to Irish than it is to English (Italo-Celtic branching). But I was just agreeing that it did come from, essentially, a dialect of French.