Re: Hebrew and Semitic questions

Dan Sulani scripsit:

>  (Are the connotations the same
> for Latin words used in Romance langs? Are Latin words
> used in Romance langs?)
Basically.  Latin words are commonly adapted a bit to fit the
local morphology.  There are lots of inherited/borrowed doublets, like
colgar/colocar in Spanish, or (not quite perfect) hablar/fábula.

In fact, in addition to "popular" (inherited) and "learned" (borrowed
from Latin) words, there are also "semi-learned" words, which show some
sound changes but not all of them.  Typical Spanish semi-learned words
are fruto (for *fucho), siglo (for *sejo).  The fully learned forms
would be *fructo, *seculo.

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