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Interestingly, the OED disagrees with this (quite reasonably sounding) origin theory of lieutenant: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/02/lieutenant.html h
by romanhn 2y ago
Interestingly, the OED disagrees with this (quite reasonably sounding) origin theory of lieutenant: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/02/lieutenant.html https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2015/02/lieutenant.html
- asveikau 2y agoI read it as supporting my theory. It says that in French of the time as heard by English people at the time, the phonetic value of that u was ambiguously heard as f or v. My position is v and u were phonetically ambiguous or sometimes heard as the same in Latin and romance languages. Maybe also in older forms of English.