patak (was Re: turnip query)

[Alan H. Hartley]

Francisc Czobor wrote:

> This form is found also in the Chinook Wawa of the French missionaries:
> lapatak "potatoes" (Demers),
> patak "potatoes" (Le Jeune).

Juneau (Prononciation, 197) has:

pétaque 1779, 1781
pataque 1785

and (p. 198) "la prononciation avec -k existe en Vendée et en 
Charente-Maritime"

Alan

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