Re: More changes in Montreiano :)

En réponse à Roger Mills <romilly@...>:

>
> Ital. vecchio (Port. velho)-- I'm not sure of the Proto Romance or Latin
> either, but Ital. suggests a consonant+/l/ cluster, not */...ilV.../....
> Maybe something based on Lat. vetus (?)  ???*vetulu-.  Cf. Engl.
> veteran;
> Span. and Ital vetusto 'ancient'.
> (My Ital. dictionary also gives vegliardo 'old man'-- I'd suspect a
> borrowing from Fr. vieillard (spelling?) )
>
Spelling correct! Indeed, it looks very suspiciously like a borrowing from
French, unless endings in -ardo are common in Italian.

Christophe.