Talk:chalet
Latest comment: 4 years ago by Florian Blaschke in topic Etymology
Etymology[edit]
I was thinking that might be from Old French chastelet, but online sources don't agree with me. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:26, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah, I was just thinking today maybe chalet < chaslet < chastelet too, but it doesn't seem to be correct. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:52, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
The spelling given for Franco-Provençal (Romand) "çhalè" looks odd. Can a ç really be followed by an h? How would that be pronounced? I didn't know they even had a ç.
- I'm not sure. I thought I had seen the digraph çh used for a Romance language before, either Walloon or Franco-Provençal, or perhaps Friulian, but I can't find anything on Wikipedia about this. Wikipedia only mentions Manx as using this particular digraph. I think in Franco-Provençal it is supposed to designate [t͡ʃ], like English ch. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:52, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
- Apparently čh does exist in Friulian as an alternative digraph for cj, see čhantâ for an example, so that's what I was really thinking of; but I still believe I have seen çh in some Romance language, probably Franco-Provençal, before.
- I just had the idea to search the web. Apparently the digraph is used in the Savoyard dialect to denote the phoneme [θ], which etymologically corresponds to [t͡ʃ] in other Franco-Provençal dialects.--Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:39, 28 June 2019 (UTC)