[tied] Re: Romanian Swadesh list

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 28198
Date: 2003-12-09

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:32:31 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
> >The words where
> >I put an -L?
>
> What about the ones where you put L? Is that +L?
>
> >are in my eyes at the very first view susceptible of not
> >being of Latin origin with all their presence in Romance.
>
> You don't know much about Latin or Romance, then.

I think Alex has arranged his words carefully here. Looking at the
his annotations in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/28166 , a lot of the
words he has marked could have come from many different IE
languages - there's nothing that marks them as Latin rather than,
say, pre-Grimm Germanic (accepting the traditional model for now).
Of course, the many unmarked ones would demonstrate an incredibly
massive number of loans from Latin! The language would have been
virtually relexified!

Richard.

Richard.