University of Michigan Studies Volume 2; Humanistic Series

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ... instead of-IC, is at once obvious. The words in which-IC is not preceded by a, and the suffix-IC is clear, will be treated first: 1 Can, given in Levy I, 195, is probably corrupt. Levy here refers to a commentary of his own in Litbl., XI, 344, on the text of the Auzels Casadors. In 11. 2725 and 2726 we find Wanes and cans rhyming. Yet it is quite possible that, although not found, can, gray, from canus, may have existed and have been the base of canec. As there are peculiarities in the formation of all of these words, however, each one will be treated individually, as though it were an ordinary Prov, formation. Deific, godlike, devout, comes from the Latin deificus, and shows, therefore, a shifting of the accent. It is a word modeled in Provencal times on the Latin source.1 Another word showing a shifting of the accent, making possible the ending-IC, is algaravic, arabic. Raynouard gives arabi and arabit, and Mistral arabi and arabic. Arabic certainly must have existed also in Old Provencal and have been formed, like the above words, with a shifting of the accent, on arablcus. Algaravic seems to point to a transfer of the suffix from arabic to the word found in Spanish as algarabia (from an Arabic algarabia), and probably borrowed in Provencal from Spanish. Three of the other words in the above list2 are simply regular developments of the Latin unaccented suffix-ICUS, preceded by o, and giving therefore-AIC and not-IC in Provencal, and another is likewise a Latin formation.2 The only word still remaining to be treated is therefore forsaic, strong, powerful. This is beyond doubt a Provencal formation, and its meaning, which there are many 1 And to this word should also be added, though-IC is preceded by a, juzaic, Jewish, which shows a similar shifting of t...