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demarida 'asked' by dixo 'told'. He-was probably unaware of
the possible meaning 'to reproach'
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C3,15 la menaca, si ele ne dissoit son marl que il...
eaidaust
sp3, l5 amenazola, sy non lo dixiese todo a su marido, que-
les feziese alguna cosa
The meaning of dissoit is clearly 'ordered', while that of
dixiese is 'recounted'; the translator has made the wrong
choice among the several meanings of the French verb.
Combined with the Spaniard's ignorance of eaidaust
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(see (i)
above), 'this error has also resulted in the syntactic error
of taking the Sue les feziese clause to be dependent on
amenazo.
C4,2 e si sembloit de son viaire qui ce fust fez, ausi
come si la meson arsist
Sp4,2 E semejava su rrostro commo Si fuese fuego, o asi
commo sy la casa ardiese
The French version means 'it seemed from her face that there
was a fire', a fair translation of B4,2; however, the
Spanish text means 'her face looked as if it were a fire' or
'her face resembled a fire'. While the inaccuracy is not
serious, it is significant in that it reveals a
misunderstanding of French sembloit: deceived by the formal
similarity of sembler to seine ar, or by an awareness of their
common etymology, the Spaniard has used semejava in a
construction which shows that it means 'looked', not
'seemed'59. The error may, however, be purely syntactical,
resulting from the translator's failure to read the
preposition de: this would cause son viaire to appear to
be the subject of the verb sembloit.
C4,18 e dist a son marl gui suspiroit pur ce meismes
Sp4,19 e ssu marido le pregunto por gue ssospirava
The aberrant Spanish por gue 'why' is probably to be
explained, not as a translation of MS C, but rather of a
text resembling MS C5, which at this point reads ki por ce