Re: [tied] Latin verus

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 24690
Date: 2003-07-19

19-07-03 15:15, alex wrote:

> Does it mean that just Albanian kept the Latin word "consobrinus" for
> "cousin" and no other Romance kept that word?

The very word <cousin> (Fr. cousin/cousine, OFr. cusin(e), cosin(e))
comes from <conso:bri:nus>/<conso:brina>. So do It. cugino/cugina and
Rh.-Rom. cus(d)rin/cus(d)rina.

Piotr