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

Quoting John Cowan <jcowan@...>:

> > > (ModE "harp", BTW, is only partly a descendant of OE "hearpe"; it
> > > probably owes its vowel to French "harpe", which is itself a
> > > Common Romance borrowing from Germanic.)
> >
> > Common Romance = Late Vulgar Latin?
>
> Presumably.  But "Common Romance borrowing" means that the borrowing
> is found in all the branches of Romance (I haven't actually looked
> at Romanian, so I probably should have said "Common Western Romance
> borrowing" just to be safe).
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.

                                                           Andreas

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