12/15 Hence, whilst _convoy_ is borrowed from French, _convey_ is Anglo-French. _Machine_ is French, because the _ch_ is pronounced as _sh_; but _chine_, the backbone, is Anglo-French. _Rouge_ is French, because of the peculiar pronunciation of the final _ge_; but _rage_ is Anglo-French; and _jaundice_ is Anglo-French, as it has the old _j_. See Chapters III-VI of my _Principles of English Etymology, Second Series_. It is rightly derived, in the _E.D.D._, from _gantier_, which must have been an A.F. |