Re: vulgar Latin?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <gs001ns@...> wrote:

> >If we take an eye to the word avull `steam' (in Romanian abur with,
> >it seems, regular evolution /ll/>/r/, which can be derived from PIE
> >*ab- `water'
>
> Only if this applies to Lat. vapor [wapor] as well.
>
> >Konushevci
>
> George

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As far as I am aware, <steam> and <vapor> are synonyms (cf. Webster's
Dictionary or Webster's Thesaurus). Indeed, vapor may has also the
meaning of "fog", "mist", "smoke", but it is not a big shift of
meaning. [WAPOR] I can't find in any English dictionary.

Konushevci