Hi!
Adam F. writes:
> Does anyone know the origins of two words "rien" and "res". They are both
> the words for "nothing" the first is French and the second Catalan. I wonder
> if they are cognates, but I can't find anything about it online. This is for
> a conlang project so I thought maybe someone would know.
There was a discussion about this on Ideolengua a while ago (Nov 2004
to be more precise) and it was said that Catalan 'res' is indeed from
Latin 'res' (the same way Elliott says that the French is from 'rem').
**Henrik