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|   | Subject: Why Defenestration?
Posted Apr 19, 2000 by  Is mise Duncan | | Post: 1
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Shouldn't it be transfenestration?
Or have I got myself all befuddled again 
I suspect it's a direct translation from French, but even in English one throws things out the window rather than through it.
If it is from French, shouldn't it be defenetration from fenetre...or has French lost the extra 's' in the interim.
Yes - that's what the circumflex accent means
|  | Subject: Why Defenestration?
Posted Dec 29, 2000 by e-griff
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I always thought transfenestration or exfenestration would be more correct. Defenestration would be removing the windows from a building
its from the latin for window - "fenestra"
As in foret: woodland (forest); tempet: storm (tempest); etre: to be (it had an s in Latin). A French e-circumflex often marks a missing s.
TRiG.
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