Subject: Re: [HM] "exception that PROVES the rule"
From: Christian Marinus Taisbak (marinus@private.dk)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 11:56:40 EST
to James A Landau's lingvistic information may be added that in
Danish (and other Scandinavian languages) to "test" is "proeve"
(pronounced as French "preuve" with a audible 'e'), ultimately
borrowed from Latin "probare", meaning to "test" - although
already in classical Latin the verb had various shades of meaning,
including to "prove" = "show to be true".
I am inclined to think that this was always the case in English, too.
Marinus
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