There is any relation between the English verb “ask” and the French expression “est-ce que”?
I was thinking about the pronunciation of the English verb "ask" and how it's similar to the French expression "est-ce que", used to start questions in some cases. I searched for the origin of "ask" in the Oxford Dictionary of English (which comes with every Mac) and it states the following:
Old English āscian, āhsian, āxian, of West Germanic origin.
So, no relation with French, apparently.
In any way, I'm still curious if they have the same etymological source. There is any relation between them?
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I was thinking about the pronunciation of the English verb "ask" and how it's similar to the French expression "est-ce que", used to start questions in some cases. I searched for the origin of "ask" in the Oxford Dictionary of English (which comes with every Mac) and it states the following:
Old English āscian, āhsian, āxian, of West Germanic origin.
So, no relation with French, apparently.
In any way, I'm still curious if they have the same etymological source. There is any relation between them?
etymology french
asked 5 hours ago
Gustavo StraubeGustavo Straube
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No. Why would you think that. The French expression is composed of three words that are not even related to one another, let alone related to ask as a whole.
– RegDwigнt♦
5 hours ago
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It's easy to make that mistake. Est-ce que sounds like ask.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
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I was thinking about the pronunciation of the English verb "ask" and how it's similar to the French expression "est-ce que", used to start questions in some cases. I searched for the origin of "ask" in the Oxford Dictionary of English (which comes with every Mac) and it states the following:
Old English āscian, āhsian, āxian, of West Germanic origin.
So, no relation with French, apparently.
In any way, I'm still curious if they have the same etymological source. There is any relation between them?
etymology french
asked 5 hours ago
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I was thinking about the pronunciation of the English verb "ask" and how it's similar to the French expression "est-ce que", used to start questions in some cases. I searched for the origin of "ask" in the Oxford Dictionary of English (which comes with every Mac) and it states the following:
Old English āscian, āhsian, āxian, of West Germanic origin.
So, no relation with French, apparently.
In any way, I'm still curious if they have the same etymological source. There is any relation between them?
etymology french
etymology french
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No. Why would you think that. The French expression is composed of three words that are not even related to one another, let alone related to ask as a whole.
– RegDwigнt♦
5 hours ago
1
It's easy to make that mistake. Est-ce que sounds like ask.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
add a comment |
2
No. Why would you think that. The French expression is composed of three words that are not even related to one another, let alone related to ask as a whole.
– RegDwigнt♦
5 hours ago
1
It's easy to make that mistake. Est-ce que sounds like ask.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
2
2
No. Why would you think that. The French expression is composed of three words that are not even related to one another, let alone related to ask as a whole.
– RegDwigнt♦
5 hours ago
No. Why would you think that. The French expression is composed of three words that are not even related to one another, let alone related to ask as a whole.
– RegDwigнt♦
5 hours ago
1
1
It's easy to make that mistake. Est-ce que sounds like ask.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
It's easy to make that mistake. Est-ce que sounds like ask.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago
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This is what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED.com) has to say about the etymology of ask:
Cognate with Old Frisian āskia, āschia to demand, to claim (East Frisian easkje), Middle Dutch eiscen, eescen, eischen, eeschen (also (rare) in forms with initial h-) to ask, request, desire (Dutch eischen), Old Saxon ēskon, ēscan to ask, demand, to search for, investigate (also ēscian (rare) to claim) (Middle Low German ēschen , eischen , also (rare) hēschen, heischen), Old High German eiscōn, eiskōn to demand, ask, to search for, look for (Middle High German eischen , heischen, German heischen) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit iccháti seeks, wishes, éṣati seeks, Avestan isaiti longs for, Old Church Slavonic iskati to seek, search, Lithuanian ieškóti to search for, and perhaps further with classical Latin aeruscāre to go begging, to ask
Ultimately the Proto Indo European base ask comes from is *h2eys- through Germanic while "est-ce que" is three words: être from PIE /*h1es-, ce from PIE *ḱe (through Latin ecce), and que from PIE *kʷih2 also through Latin. These are not the same roots.
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Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
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This is what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED.com) has to say about the etymology of ask:
Cognate with Old Frisian āskia, āschia to demand, to claim (East Frisian easkje), Middle Dutch eiscen, eescen, eischen, eeschen (also (rare) in forms with initial h-) to ask, request, desire (Dutch eischen), Old Saxon ēskon, ēscan to ask, demand, to search for, investigate (also ēscian (rare) to claim) (Middle Low German ēschen , eischen , also (rare) hēschen, heischen), Old High German eiscōn, eiskōn to demand, ask, to search for, look for (Middle High German eischen , heischen, German heischen) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit iccháti seeks, wishes, éṣati seeks, Avestan isaiti longs for, Old Church Slavonic iskati to seek, search, Lithuanian ieškóti to search for, and perhaps further with classical Latin aeruscāre to go begging, to ask
Ultimately the Proto Indo European base ask comes from is *h2eys- through Germanic while "est-ce que" is three words: être from PIE /*h1es-, ce from PIE *ḱe (through Latin ecce), and que from PIE *kʷih2 also through Latin. These are not the same roots.
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Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
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This is what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED.com) has to say about the etymology of ask:
Cognate with Old Frisian āskia, āschia to demand, to claim (East Frisian easkje), Middle Dutch eiscen, eescen, eischen, eeschen (also (rare) in forms with initial h-) to ask, request, desire (Dutch eischen), Old Saxon ēskon, ēscan to ask, demand, to search for, investigate (also ēscian (rare) to claim) (Middle Low German ēschen , eischen , also (rare) hēschen, heischen), Old High German eiscōn, eiskōn to demand, ask, to search for, look for (Middle High German eischen , heischen, German heischen) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit iccháti seeks, wishes, éṣati seeks, Avestan isaiti longs for, Old Church Slavonic iskati to seek, search, Lithuanian ieškóti to search for, and perhaps further with classical Latin aeruscāre to go begging, to ask
Ultimately the Proto Indo European base ask comes from is *h2eys- through Germanic while "est-ce que" is three words: être from PIE /*h1es-, ce from PIE *ḱe (through Latin ecce), and que from PIE *kʷih2 also through Latin. These are not the same roots.
answered 4 hours ago
LaurelLaurel
33.3k666118
Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
add a comment |
This is what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED.com) has to say about the etymology of ask:
Cognate with Old Frisian āskia, āschia to demand, to claim (East Frisian easkje), Middle Dutch eiscen, eescen, eischen, eeschen (also (rare) in forms with initial h-) to ask, request, desire (Dutch eischen), Old Saxon ēskon, ēscan to ask, demand, to search for, investigate (also ēscian (rare) to claim) (Middle Low German ēschen , eischen , also (rare) hēschen, heischen), Old High German eiscōn, eiskōn to demand, ask, to search for, look for (Middle High German eischen , heischen, German heischen) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit iccháti seeks, wishes, éṣati seeks, Avestan isaiti longs for, Old Church Slavonic iskati to seek, search, Lithuanian ieškóti to search for, and perhaps further with classical Latin aeruscāre to go begging, to ask
Ultimately the Proto Indo European base ask comes from is *h2eys- through Germanic while "est-ce que" is three words: être from PIE /*h1es-, ce from PIE *ḱe (through Latin ecce), and que from PIE *kʷih2 also through Latin. These are not the same roots.
answered 4 hours ago
LaurelLaurel
33.3k666118
This is what the Oxford English Dictionary (OED.com) has to say about the etymology of ask:
Cognate with Old Frisian āskia, āschia to demand, to claim (East Frisian easkje), Middle Dutch eiscen, eescen, eischen, eeschen (also (rare) in forms with initial h-) to ask, request, desire (Dutch eischen), Old Saxon ēskon, ēscan to ask, demand, to search for, investigate (also ēscian (rare) to claim) (Middle Low German ēschen , eischen , also (rare) hēschen, heischen), Old High German eiscōn, eiskōn to demand, ask, to search for, look for (Middle High German eischen , heischen, German heischen) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit iccháti seeks, wishes, éṣati seeks, Avestan isaiti longs for, Old Church Slavonic iskati to seek, search, Lithuanian ieškóti to search for, and perhaps further with classical Latin aeruscāre to go begging, to ask
Ultimately the Proto Indo European base ask comes from is *h2eys- through Germanic while "est-ce que" is three words: être from PIE /*h1es-, ce from PIE *ḱe (through Latin ecce), and que from PIE *kʷih2 also through Latin. These are not the same roots.
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Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
add a comment |
Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
Correction: est (and être) is from the PIE root *h1es- (sorry, can’t be arsed to do subscript numbers on my phone), not *bʰeu̯H-. The two were often conflated into a suppletive paradigm, but they were originally separate, and the forms in question here are from the former. (English be(en) is from the latter, while am/are/is are from the former.)
– Janus Bahs Jacquet
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
@JanusBahsJacquet Yeah I read Wiktionary wrong. The root I had listed is for a different form of être.
– Laurel
2 hours ago
add a comment |
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No. Why would you think that. The French expression is composed of three words that are not even related to one another, let alone related to ask as a whole.
– RegDwigнt♦
5 hours ago
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It's easy to make that mistake. Est-ce que sounds like ask.
– John Lawler
4 hours ago