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Re: Lexicons and Langauge Borrowing

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 17, 1999, 4:46
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. -- languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin