Re: Ladino Proverbs and Sayings (Waaay long!)

Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> wrote:
>=20
> It's a regular development from hominem.  The sounds change like this:
> -min- -> -mn- -> -mr- -> -mbr-.  The b is a "glide consonant".
> Compare:
>=20
> famine          hambre
> homine          hombre
> stamine         estambre
> ferrumine       herrumbre
> consuetumine    costumbre
> multitumine     muchedumbre
Thanks a lot! And Christophe, you guessed! :)
I can probably add one more word from this 'paradigm', which I've
noticed right now: _femina_ > _hembra_ (and we still have _f=E9mina_
as a very pompous word for 'woman' -- that's a nice pair which I'd
never guessed myself...).


--Pablo Flores
  http://draseleq.conlang.org/