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Re: CONLANG Digest - 21 Feb 2004 to 22 Feb 2004 (#2004-52)

From:michael poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Thursday, February 26, 2004, 13:00
Anchoa looks (on the surface at least) very Basque = antxoa. The romance
langs however have no nasal and a labial instead of a dental. No great probs
there of course, and while it's true that the present-day Basque country is
not "Mediterranean" its extent could well have been much larger in the past;
and in any case the Basques have always been hot on the deep-sea fishing /
whaling. It's quite likely that there would have been contact with other
fishing cultures in the past.
Mike
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From: "Philippe Caquant" <herodote92@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: CONLANG Digest - 21 Feb 2004 to 22 Feb 2004 (#2004-52)


> Silhouette ? My etymological dictionnary mentions: > "silhouette, 1759, du nom du controleur general E. de > Silhouette". As to anchovies, "1546, de l'espagnol > anchoa, emprunte au grec aphue, par l'intermediaire du > bas latin *apiuva; mot mediterraneen". I like this > idea, "Mediterranean word". Anyway, Basques don't live > on Mediterranean borders... > > --- jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote: > > michael poxon scripsit: > > > > > The basques think that "la difference" is > > sufficiently important > > > to have two separate words just like most > > languages: Gizon (is this, by the > > > way, a source of the English word "geezer"?) / > > Andere. > > > > No, it isn't. Geezer < Scots guiser < disguiser. > > > > Words that are actually of Basque origin (mediated > > by Spanish or French) > > are: bizarre, chaparral, jai alai, silhouette, and > > possibly anchovy. > > > > -- > > John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com > > > ===== > Philippe Caquant > > "Le langage est source de malentendus." > (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. > http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools
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