Re: Adding New Words
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 30, 2006, 16:55 |
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On 5/30/06, Thomas Leigh <thomas@...> wrote:
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> This reminds me of Maltese (one of my favorite languages!),
Mine, too!
> which gives some
> interesting broken plurals to Italian loanwords, e.g. furketta (fork) > pl.
> frieket, kamra (room) > pl. kmamar, lupu (wolf) > pl. lpup... Wonderful
> stuff! :-)
Yeah, great, isn't it?
One of the reasons I like it was the way it integrated foreign words
into the Semitic scheme (broken blurals, verbal conjugation, etc.).
Though later words were changed less (and decline mostly or
exclusively on the end(s) rather than internally), but it's still fun.
> L'hitraot,
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> Thomas
Saħħa,
Philip
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>