Re: s-stems in Slavic and Germanic

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2009-02-07 21:18, Andrew Jarrette wrote:
>
> > Out of curiosity, are the major changes that occurred in Vulgar Latin,
> > leading up to the Romance languages, held to be primarily due to the
> > influence of foreign presence, e.g. Visigoths, Moors (I don't know who
> > it would be in France)?
>
> The Franks? ;-)
>
> Piotr
>

Oh, of course. For some reason I had the idea that the Franks had
become assimilated into the Latin-speaking population before the
changes leading to French had begun. As you can tell here and
elsewhere, European history is not my forte (didn't take it in high
school or university). I will check Wiki on the Franks.

Andrew