Re: [tied] IE numbers

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 23:50:28, "Glen Gordon"
> <glengordon01@...>
> wrote:
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> >First, define your meaning of "fortis".
>
> It sure isn't "voiceless aspirate". Look it up.
>
> >> >Note also Latin /unificare/.
> >>
> >>Why? 1. it's not Classical Latin, 2. it doesn't
> mean "bad".
> >
> >2. So what? A verb literally meaning "to be one"
> might convey
> > a million and one nuances. Here, I'm implying
> that the nuance
> > came to be "to be alone" and then "to be
> abandoned".
>
> In which language? Not in Latin.

******GK: The verb "unificare" has no Classical era
use evidence (at least it is not recorded in my 2000+
page Oxford Latin Dictionary). It emerges apparently
only in medieval Latin.*****

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