aussi French · revision 16251

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=inherited|attested=early 12th century, alsi|origins=la aliud, la sīc}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /o.si/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''aussi'''^(Wiktionary)

+ Old French [[m|fro|alsi]] (early 12th century), [[m|fro|ausi]], ''ossi''.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Wiktionary) ''Ausins'' is found about 1160.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[inh|fro|alsi]], [[inh|la-vul|*ale sīc]], from “*ale”, a popular remaking of [[m|la|aliud|alt=alid|t=something else]], and [[m|la|sīc|t=so, thus]].^(Grand Robert 2005)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(GLLF 1989)^(Wiktionary)^(FEW|11, 576a) Rey allows that it may instead have been formed in French from the old pronoun [[m|fro|al|t=something else]] (from “*ale”) and [[si]] (from “sīc”).^(DHLF 1992) Wiktionary suggests it is probably a calque of [[frk|*allswā|t=likewise]].^(Wiktionary) It eliminated the parallel compound [[m|fro|altresi]], “autresi” “likewise”, which seems at first to have been more common.^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989) Littré took the old forms “altresi”, “alsi” to show an origin “alterum sic”, “aliud sic”.^(Littré 1873)

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+ The same compound is found only in Romansh “aschi”; compare [[it|altresì]].^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ ''Alsi'' is first found at the beginning of the 12th century; the phrase ''alsi… cum'' (''aussi… comme'') meant “in the same way as” in the first half of the century.^(Grand Robert 2005)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The first uses differ from modern ones: ''aussi… comme'', later replaced by ''aussi bien que'' (17th century), meant “in the same way as”, and at the head of a sentence ''ausins'' (about 1160) meant “thus”.^(DHLF 1992) In negative sentences ''ausi'' meant “neither” (about 1170, Chrétien de Troyes), while its use in affirmative sentences, “also”, from the same time, is still alive.^(DHLF 1992) ''Aussi'' + adjective + ''que'' (''osi que'', about 1270) replaced ''autant que'' in comparisons.^(DHLF 1992) The Middle French uses “moreover, likewise” (mid-15th century) and ''aussi bien'' “besides” have lasted, and in literary use ''aussi'' at the head of a clause, with inversion, means “therefore”.^(DHLF 1992)^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * early 12th century – ''Alsi''.^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * c. 1160 – ''Ausins'' “thus”.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 1170 – ''Ausi'' “also”, and “neither” after a negative, in Chrétien de Troyes.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * c. 1270 – ''Osi que'' in comparisons.^(DHLF 1992)

+ * mid-15th century – “Moreover, likewise”.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adverb===

+ # [[m|en|too]], [[m|en|also]], as well: ''moi aussi''.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

+ # As (in comparisons of equality): ''aussi grand que vous''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # So, such: ''je n'ai rien vu d'aussi joli''.^(Petit Robert 2007)

+ # ''Aussi bien que'': as well as.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ===Conjunction===

+ # ''(literary)'' So, therefore, with inversion: ''aussi est-il parti''.^(Wiktionary)^(GLLF 1989)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[si]]

+ * [[ainsi]]

+ * [[autre]]

+ * [[la|sīc]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}