Re: Lexicons and Langauge Borrowing

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:23:16 -0300, FFlores <fflores@...> wrote:

>Now I remembered I had some unconscious loans or
>similarities noted in an old text file. Here are some:
>
>Have any of you notices such things in your own conlangs?
>I think it's a very interesting phenomenon.
The Olaetyan word "venn" is a greeting used between friends. This may =
have
been an unconscious borrowing from the Norwegian word "venn", meaning
"friend". "Venn" is also the name of the Olaetyan goddess of love, which
has some similarity to the name of the Roman goddess Venus.

"Tal" is a very common word for "language" in my languages. Whether it =
was
unconsciously derived from Dutch "taal" or coincidentally similar is hard
to say. It first shows up in Elvish languages, which are more consciously
influenced by Slavic languages, but that doesn't rule out a possible
connection with Dutch or other languages.

I'm sure there must be others, but these are the only two that come to
mind.

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