Re: ASL translation?

On Sep 15, 2:18 am, "Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
On Sep 14, 5:17 pm, "Douglas G. Kilday" wrote:
On Sep 12, 9:18 pm, "Brian M. Scott" wrote:

[...]

I wonder whether the single <r> and double <ss> in <harass>
has contributed to the modern accent shift.

More likely it was conflated with <harangue> by some speakers,

How?

Hmm. No good parallels come to mind. An alternative suggests
itself. The old noun <'harass> 'harassment', cited as "rare" by the
1903 F&W (hence still in use then) could have generated a transitive
verb <ha'rass> by the analogy of <'produce> (n.), <pro'duce> (v.t.)
and similar doublets. The verb <ha'rass> would have been
paretymologically reinforced by the verb <ha'rangue>, which is
semantically close, and would thus have gained ground over the verb
<'harass>. This of course is not conflation, and I withdraw my
earlier claim.

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