Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Alice proofreading

From: John Cowan <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 13:38:37 -0500

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".

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