Re: [tied] A truncated snake

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 01:45:24 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Miguel, not only Latin have had the form "frater" but Greek too so far I
>see ( frate).

Greek for brother is adelphos (New Greek adhelfó(s)). The word
*bhra:te:r only survived as phra:to:r/phra:te:r, "member of a
religious botherhood (phratria)".

>Just as matter of fact, why should dissapier the "r" from frater?

-r was lost in Romanian and Italian.


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