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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:
> Guerre with -g- is a Parisian French-made word out of Frankish werra.
> Guerra with -g- is an Italian inherited word from Longobardic
self-made guerra.
> Romance has nothing to do with all this in the first place.
The point is that it may be possible to project these words
Proto-Romance, but such a projection would be wrong, possibly by
virtue of the history above, possibly by their adoption into late
Latin being too late for Proto-Romance.
I thought the Proto-Algonquian words for 'gun' and 'whiskey' were the
standard examples, but I have heard that there is a deficiency in
these examples. (Unfortunately, I don't know what it is.)
Richard.