Re: The reason for Caesar's obtaining the two Gauls as province

2012/2/28, Torsten <tgpedersen@...>:

>> > 'calles' has root 'a', thus it is a 'mot populaire' and as such
>> > not directly descended from PIE by the same route as 'regular'
>> > Latin. Ie. it is a loan.
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>> >
>> No.
>> 1) 'Mot populaire' doesn't mean 'loan'.
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> I think it does.

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Please demonstrate it

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>> 2) There are plenty of sources for Latin /a/ e.g. from */e/ after
>> PIE pure velar */k/
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> I also think pure velars indicate loans.
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Same as above