There's an interesting post at Language Log about rehaul. In English, rehaul seems reasonably interchangeable with overhaul to us, although we may naturally be influenced by one of the meanings of èrhaler/r'haler = to get better, to improve. Of course, rehaul in the sense of haul again or haul back is a regular equivalent of èrhaler/r'haler in any case.
overâller = overhaul is given in the dictionary, a borrowing from English attested in literary Jèrriais.
Friday, 30 March 2012
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