Re: Let Me Introduce Myself

MJR> The house  = la domo   (Slavic)

PhD> Hmm. I thought "domo" was from Latin "domus."

I was thinking of Russian "дом", but I guess it could be from Latin
after all.

PhD> I don't have a reference to hand, but it has always seemed to
PhD> me that within the Romance group, the largest contributor is
PhD> French.

Your examples are compelling.

PhD> Conjunctions and prepositions tend to be from Latin.

Which is probably why I thought Latin was a greater contributor.  There
are exceptions even in this group, though.  "sed"="but" is clearly Latin;
"aŭ"="or" could come from pretty much any Romance lang.  But "kaj"="and" is
clearly not Romance at all.

-Marcos