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No idea - it may have come to English via French too. English is a mongrel of a language.
by lostlogin 4y ago
No idea - it may have come to English via French too.
English is a mongrel of a language.
- defrost 4y agoFrom a brief dip in the multi volume full OED it looks like "Vice Chairman" (etc) came about via vyse | visage | "face" .. as in "This person is a substitute | deputy | "the face" of another person or role" It's a usage going back to at least 1597 and lost in the fog of time before.
- glogla 4y agoInteresting. It works the same in a most European languages (Vicepresidente, Vice-président, Vizepräsident, Wiceprezydent, Viceprezident, Віцепрезидент, Вице-президент, ...).