Re: [romconlang] -able
| From: | Peter Collier <petecollier@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 15, 2008, 20:42 |
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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [romconlang] -able
> > Brtish term for pavement/blacktop is of course tarmac (< tar MacAdam).
> > A
>> road would therefore be 'tarmac(c?)ed' (I think one also used to say
>> macadamised, but I haven;t heard that expression in a long time).
Another term I hear frequently for roads, meaning paved in the US sense, is
'metalled', although I don't use that one myself. I wonder where that
orginated from!?
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