Talk:chercher

@Calthinus Thanks for your additions. Are you sure about the pair charger – chercher? The etymology disagrees with the one provided here. --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 21:22, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@Per utramque cavernam Interesting, I had not seen the circare etymology for chercher before. The one I've encountered in the literature is indeed carricare. Both are phonologically plausible sources -- chercher would be regular save the devoicing (if one considers the "rr" in carricare to be one segment, a rolled /r/, that is), and chercher would probably also be some sort of dialect loan (from a dialect with later palatalization -- Picard is a likely suspect) with a doublet looking something like cerchier rather than charger. If anything I'd have to say I find circare a more semantically convincing proposal. --Calthinus (talk) 21:41, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Pope seems to agree with the version this page states, with the initial ch- form being due to assimilation and circare being the source. --Calthinus (talk) 21:55, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

@Calthinus: I've added the carricare etymology to this entry, but with some hedging; feel free to reword it.

By the way, is it all right if I ping you on a couple of old Etymology scriptorium convos? There are several still unanswered questions about Romance philology, and I'm sure the person who asked them would enjoy speaking with you! --Per utramque cavernam (talk) 22:16, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Well I'm flattered (you might think I'm more of an expert than the reality tbh), and sure you can ping me.--Calthinus (talk) 23:20, 10 April 2018 (UTC)