From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 51983
Date: 2008-01-27
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Wordingham
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Existence of PIE
--- In 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.
Richard.
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Tsalam? t?ob
No it may not.
How do you create an acceptable proto-Romance form for
Italian [gw-erra]
and French guerre [ger] ?
Arnaud