Re: [tied] Re: Historical implications...

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:21:26 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>But the shortly form of santa ist stã: Santa Maria = Stãmarie and the
>short form of sântus is Sân (Sân Nicolaul)
>Both of them does not reflect Latin sanctus since expected is
>*sãmptu/sampta

Expected is sântu ~ sân, cf. Port. santo ~ são, Spa. santo ~ san, Cat.
sant, Fr. saint, Ita. santo. The Vulgar Latin form was *santus, not
sanctus.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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