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[johnna holloway]

Just browsed another example of
Victorian scholarship...the OED:
and noted that there are a number of
these words that are related....
including trench, tranch, ....

tranche , semi-anglicized as , sb.1
 [a. Fr. tranche, f. trancher to cut: see trench. ]
1. A cutting, a cut; a piece cut off, a slice.
     C. 1500 Melusine xi. 43 The said fontayne,
 where as grett tranchis [p. 50 trenchis] or keruyng
 was made within the harde roche.

trench trent, v. Forms: see the sb.
[a. OFr. trenchier (11th c. in Godef. Compl.),
 Fr. trancher to cut, hew, slice, etc. =
Prov. trencar, trinquar, Catal. trencar, Sp.,
Pg. trincar; cf. Ital. trinciare. These Romanic
 forms are held to represent a
popular L. *trincare, altered from L. truncare
 to cut or lop off, f. truncus the trunk of a tree:
 cf. truncheon. Our sense 1 is
directly from OFr. .....

I. To cut, make a cutting.
1. trans. To cut; to divide by cutting,
 slice, cut in pieces; to sever by cutting,
 cut off; to cut into, make a cut in; to cut one's
way. Also absol.
1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 104 b/2 Thomas is
as moche to saye as..double or trenchyd and heuen.

Johnna Holloway  Johnnae llyn Lewis
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> On 23 Jan 2002, at 6:33, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> > Whether or not this is another case of Dreaded Victorian Scholarship,
> > I don't know. Adamantius