From jcowan@reutershealth.com Fri Mar 28 10:38:12 2003 Return-Path: X-Sender: jcowan@reutershealth.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_2_6_5); 28 Mar 2003 18:38:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 1065 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 18:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.218) by m1.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 28 Mar 2003 18:38:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO skunk.reutershealth.com) (65.200.144.21) by mta3.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 28 Mar 2003 18:38:11 -0000 Received: from skunk.reutershealth.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by skunk.reutershealth.com (Postfix) with SMTP id C896046E35 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:38:37 -0500 (EST) Received: by skunk.reutershealth.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:38:37 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:38:37 -0500 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Alice proofreading Message-ID: <20030328183837.GF8744@skunk.reutershealth.com> References: <03032819313901.05904@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <03032819313901.05904@linux> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=8122456 X-Yahoo-Profile: john_w_cowan Bj?rn Gohla scripsit: > > Classical Latin would have "kErasus" if it is a short a and "kerAsus" if it > > is a long a. Seeing as the short A results in Spanish "*cierzo" and the > > my dictionary says it is a short 'a' by nature, and there is no positional > length either, right?. > > > long a in "cerezo", meaning "cherry tree", In that case, I suppose that "cerezo" is either a fairly direct borrowing from Latin, or an inherited form that has been reshaped under Latin influence. Spanish is full of both of these: for an obvious example, inherited "hablar" vs. Latinate "fabular". -- My corporate data's a mess! John Cowan It's all semi-structured, no less. http://www.ccil.org/~cowan But I'll be carefree jcowan@reutershealth.com Using XSLT http://www.reutershealth.com In an XML DBMS.