si (was: substratum)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:

> Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>>
>>> E Bramidonie vient curant cuntre lui;Si li ad dit: «Dolente,
>>> si mare fui!
>>>
>>> Specially, "si li ad dit:"
>>
>> "And Bramidonie comes running to him. So to-him she-has said: Alas,
>> so unlucky I-was! In such shame, sire, my lord have-I lost! [A itel
>> hunte, sire, mon seignor ai perdut!"]"
>
> You explain "si" as "so". OK, thank you.

Lat. "si:c" `so, thus`, at the origin of French "(ain)si", Italian
"(co)si", etc. You already saw that word in different contexts.

Marius Iacomi