Re: Negation

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Wordingham" <richard.wordingham@...>
>> On the contrary - consider the words with 3 or more syllables:
>> proposé, considérés, probablement, hérités. They're all borrowed
>> from Latin rather than inherited.

> Borrowed ??

> Old French porposer, consirer, eriter

> These words are not borrowed,
> They have been graphically retro-latinified by the orthographic purist
> tradition,
> this has nothing to do borrowing.

Relatinisation has lengthened _consirer_ to _considérer_ - one extra
syllable. Do you concede that _probable_ is borrowed?

If _eriter_ is inherited, where does the intervocalic /t/ come from?
Ancestral Latin *t would have dropped.

As to _proposer_ (did the OF indeed have surd-preserving metathesis?),
that would go back to *pro:pausa:re, which did not come from Rome.

Richard.