Romance Languor (Was: The Tongue)

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> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
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> > Subject: Re: [tied] the tongue
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> In this case is just "gw"+vowel who gave a "b" in romanian.
> Unfortunately we have again irregularities like:

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> lingoare= typhoid fever from Latin languor,-languoris
>
> It seems, as usual, how many rules , so many exceptions.

Is there some peculiarity about the Romance development of this word
from Latin? The Oxford Etymological Dictionary records Old French
langueur as a _loan_ form Latin, rather than as the developed form,
and the <u> is silent in English 'languor'.

Richard.