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46 6— Relâchez- vous un peu des droits de la naissance s Abate in some measure from a father's rights. Relâcher, re and lâcher, Old Fr. lascher, Lat laxare; the ch of lâcher représente the k or e
contained in the Lat. x (as wett as s) ; ftts change of the Latin c into a Fr. c* is fréquent s campus, champ ; os* û, chien ; copra, chèvre ; eàmcra, chambre, ftc The x being équivalent to es, the French word ottgfcit tor be lachser, bot the c and s hâve been transposed, and the wocd has become iascÀtr, now lâcher. In proef of this transposition, one need only hsten to children or uneducated people pronouncing 8uch words as rixe, luxe ; they pronounce risk, lusk.
Jfap 56 Um a6— Ah ! voilà justement de mes religieuses, lorsqu'à* père ... : That's the way with girls wbose father . . ., a fine sort of nuns, indeed* they would make.
57 5— Parlez à votre écot : Mind your own business.
Ecot, Old Fr. escot, English sert, Germa»
schatx, ail having the meaning of tax, imposition ; payer son écot, to pay one's share of a feast, hence écot, people who eat together at an inn ; parles à votre écot, speak to your Company, you hâve nothing to do with us» mind your own business.
6— Tout net : Most decidedly, flatly. Net, Provençal nede ; Lat nitidus, from nitto, to shine ; EngL ruât 9— J'en fais un grand cas » I set great value upo* them.
13— Bien prévenu de lui : Much prejudiced in hit favour.
20 — D'autre manière émue : Much more excited, affected ; liUraUy % in another manner, in a différent degree.
22 — Il faut que notre honneur se gendarme si fort: Must we get so angry and take up arma to défend our honour? Gendarme, gens d'arme»
armed policeman. Se gendarmer, to fly into a passion without reason. N
58 4— Et ne prends point le change : And am not to be thrown off the scent, deceived. Les chiens prennent le change, when thev change the fox, tare, or any animal which is being hunted, for another ; donner le change, to put on a wrong scent, to deceive.
58 10— Chansons: Nonsense.
58 13— Contes en l'air would necessarily hâve as unstable
foundations as " castles in the air," and be bot
stnff and nonsense.
58 23— Par plaisir : For the fun of the thing.
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