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Roumán Part II - Nouns,Adjectives,and Pronouns

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 28, 2000, 19:52
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> I think so. In French, we simply added the adverb "ecce" in front of iste and > ille, and then lost the "ec-", which explains forms like (in Old French) cist, > cil, cestui, celui, etc...
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