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Indirect Derivatives through French
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LAT.042 Indirect Derivatives through French
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Which claim about order and ordinal is historically plausible?
A
Order belongs on the French branch of the word family. Its development shows that an unstressed vowel disappeared, producing the rd cluster, unlike ordinal, which keeps the ord-/ordin- sequence.
B
Ordinal must be French-mediated because it is longer; word length alone determines the route.
C
Order is simply an old misspelling of ordinal that was standardized without any historical sound change.
D
Order must be direct from Latin because it is more common in everyday speech.
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