From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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Date: | Friday, August 10, 2007, 8:04 |
On 8/9/07, Ollock Ackeop <ollock@...> wrote:> loans from Greek to English where [...] the letter used can be |c| or |k| > (not sure why the difference exists, though).My guess would be that those with |c| are usually via Latin, those with |k| directly "from" Greek (usually: formed elsewhere on the basis of Greek morphemes). Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
T. A. McLeay <conlang@...> |