Re: Att. Ray -- of snails and slugs

Am 06/06 18:55  Raymond Brown yscrifef:

> Andrew will have to decide whether Brithenig will have two different words
> as other Romancelangs do or whether it will just keep basically one word as
> the Brittoniclangs do.  The 'slug' word, at least, should be drived from
> Latin: li:ma:x, [gen.] li:ma:cis.  Romance snail-words come from various
> sources, but none from the Classical _coclea_.
>
So it should be llefeg', slug; melwin, a snail or slug; malw, snails or
slugs.  I had it the other way around in my current list of things on my
computer.


- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@griffler.co.nz
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