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Re: Afrasian?

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Friday, October 11, 2002, 7:00
En réponse à taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>:

> > In (most) non-english, Europa *is* written with an -a, it's English > that > is the odd lang out. >
Since French is the only other language that has "Europe" with a -e (just like we have "Afrique", "Asie", "Amérique", "Océanie", all ending with silent -e, which is the normal outcome of final unstressed -a), couldn't it be that English borrowed the term from French rather than directly from Latin? Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.