Re: Pilovese in the Romance Language Family
| From: | caeruleancentaur <caeruleancentaur@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 3, 2008, 3:39 |
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>Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@...> wrote:
>French: petit
>Occitan: petit
>Portuguese: pequeno
>Spanish: pequeno
>Is there anyone that can clarify this for me and perhaps show me how
>these roots came to be pequeno?
"Pequeno" comes from a different root, the Latin "paucus" meaning
little or few. English derivatives are paucity, Paul, paraffin, poor,
foal, filly, pony, puerile, pedo-. The PIE root is pou- or pau-.
Charlie
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