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From: svm@kozmix.xs4all.nl (Sander van Malssen)
Subject: Re: etymology of english "ewer"
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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 1995 04:52:45 GMT
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gt1515a@prism.gatech.edu (lucipher blip.) writes:
> Anybody have any information on the etymology of the word "ewer"? (a large 
> mouthed drinking vessel.) Both OED and the American Heritage refer to the Latin
> "aqua" but the relationship seems nonobvious.

According to my copy of The Concise Oxford Dict. of English Etymology,
this is from Anglo-Norman *ewere, Old-Northern-French eviere
((Old-)French aiguri\`ere) < Romance *aqua:ria, derived from Lat. aqua.

Cheers,
Sander
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Sander van Malssen
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