Re: Evidence for Nostratic? (was Re: Proto-Uralic?)

Andreas Johansson scripsit:

> Found in all branches of Romance, AND derived from a single borrowing, that's
> to say? There must be plenty of words which have been borrowed into every
> branch of Romance separately.
In modern times, certainly, especially latinisms and hellenisms and anglicisms.
The Romance languages also borrow from each other on a massive scale -- there
are many pages in Penny's _History of the Spanish Language_ which are nothing
but lists of gallicisms and catalanisms and lusisms and occitanisms and
italianisms in standard Spanish, mostly unsuspected by modern speakers.
The most notable, of course, is the occitanism _español_.  In addition,
there are all those borrowings from Arabic that got into non-Iberian
Romance languages via Spanish, some of which have even been borrowed
back into Spanish.  And Romanian has a whole layer of 18th-century and later
borrowings from Western Romance, especially French, creating many doublets.

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