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Re: Attn: Spanish speakers

From:John Cowan <jcowan@...>
Date:Friday, August 30, 2002, 23:54
Roberto Suarez Soto scripsit:

> - From "Muerte" ("death") you have "mortal" ("mortal", but also > "deadly")
There are three kinds of words in Spanish (and other ROmance languages): those which descend from Latin, those which were borrowed from Latin with only slight modifications, and those which were borrowed from Latin but have been modified substantially. "Muerte" belongs to the first class: "mortal" to the second. -- John Cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarves." --Murray Gell-Mann

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