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Bernhard Diensberg
The origin of aroint and other -oint-words in English
SEC 20 (2015), 63–69

Abstract
Regarding the word form aroint, I am going to propose an etymological base for it in the group of French loanwords of the structure oin + consonant. As far as verbal loans are concerned, the root -oint can either stand for the 3^rd pers. sing. pres. ind. or for the past participle of Old French verbs of the type poindre ‘to pierce, prick; to sting, bite’ (AND¹: poindre), uindre, oindre ‘to anoint; to rub, smear’ (AND¹: oindre). Apart from a short bibliography, the Appendix contains a selection of illustrative material.

BibTeX

@article{Diensberg15a,
	author	= {Diensberg, Bernhard},
	title	= {The origin of \textit{aroint} and other \textit{-oint}-words in English},
	journal	= {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia},
	volume	= {20},
	year	= {2015},
	pages	= {63–69}
}