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But if a common meaning is "churchyard", then "aître" in that sense
perhaps comes only indirectly from "ater, atrum" and more directly from
"atrium".
Best,
John Dillon
On Sunday, June 12, 2005, 1:31 am, Denis Hue wrote:
> the problem is "aitre" is generally received to come from lat.
> ater, atrum
> (the aître saint Maclou is black, as if it had been tarred) ; but
> Aire Saint
> Mitre is provencal, you know... I ought to search in Mistral's
> Tresor du
> felibrige, but Gallica is desperately slow this morning...
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