Re: Negation

--- On Sun, 12/7/08, Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...> wrote:

> From: Andrew Jarrette <anjarrette@...>
> Subject: [tied] Re: Negation
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Sunday, December 7, 2008, 5:31 PM
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister
> <gabaroo6958@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In Ibero-Romance, it's laverca. For some reason,
> it's not in DRAE
> but it should be in Coromines/as. I believe it's from
> *lawerk-
> >
>
> What are DRAE and Coromines/as?
>
> Andrew

Diccionario de la Real Academiz Española --it's online and is for Spanish what the OED is for English and much more, since it's official
Coromines, or Corominas in Spanish, was the greatest etymologer of Ibero-Romance languages. After Corominas, Menéndez Pidal would probably be next.