Re: Afrasian?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 11, 2002, 7:00 |
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En réponse à taliesin the storyteller <taliesin@...>:
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> In (most) non-english, Europa *is* written with an -a, it's English
> that
> is the odd lang out.
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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.
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