Arabic-L:More on macabre

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Date: 15 Sep 2000
From: "Kaye, Alan" <akaye at Exchange.FULLERTON.EDU>
Subject: More on macabre

More on 'macabre'

I have thought, along with Garland Cannon, long and hard on 'macabre'.  We
did not list it in our 1994 The Arabic Contributions to the English language
because, as has been stated by a few already, this is a good example of a
folk etymology.  It is similar, in my opinion, to deriving 'earth' from
'arD, or from deriving 'father' from Ar. faaTir.

Alan Kaye
akaye at fullerton.edu

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