Re: A funny linguistic subway experience + some questions about nouns of days and months

En réponse à Dan Jones <feuchard@...>:

> Actually something bizarrely similar happened to me on a bus in
> Bournemouth
> (lots of foreign language students), I held a conversation with a
> Spaniard
> in a strange Italo-Franco-Hispanic Pidgin. I could have just spoken to
> him
> in English, but I lied and told him I was French (well, he was cute and
> the
> "confuzed foregner" act always seems to work...)
>
Well, having spent 5 months in the Netherlands I know that very well :)) .

>
> Hmm, looks like Andalucian to me.
>
Well, then my guess wouldn't be that bad. Andalucian is really Southern Spanish
:) .

>
> SAMEDI (XIIe s.), du lat vulg. *sambati dies, comp. de dies <jour> et
> sambati, gén. de *sambatum, empr. au grec sabmaton, var. de sabbaton
> <sabbat>.
>
Yeah, that was what Ray (I think it was Ray) said. Right now, I have in
"Roumant" sambte /sa~t/ for Saturday (yes, like French, but in smaller quantity,
"Roumant" has a few etymological spellings with silent letters, like here the
"b").

> > Okay, that was a long post, but I think an interesting one, especially
> for
> other
> > Conromance langs inventors. I'm now waiting for you all's replies :) .
>
> I've decided to keep the Classical Latin form, "saturni dies", giving
> Arveunan saundí /sOn 'di/., which has a nice "faux ami" ring about it, I
> think. FWIW the CL, not VL days of the week were borrowed by Brythonic
> speakers, so we have de Sadorn and de Sul in cornish, from "saturn's
> day"
> and "sun-day"
>
I was thinking of doing that too in "Roumant". In fact, I'm thinking of deriving
the official forms from CL, while the popular forms will be derived from VL.
Then I would do the same with month-names. But then I have the problem of the
influence of the Christian Church. I don't know if it would be very likely to
keep for official names pagan deities names. I would have thought that the
official forms would be more influenced by the church, while the popular forms
would stay more "pagan". Any thoughts?

Christophe.