Re: NATLANG: What's the sound of Cast ilian <s>?
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 9, 2003, 6:03 |
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At 02:37 8.12.2003, jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM wrote:
>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
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> > However, _undantag_ doesn't contain a negative prefix; it's a compound
> of the
> > adverb _undan_ which means basically "away" in the ablative sense; _att ta
> > undan ngt_ "to take something away", and _tag_, noun related to the verb
> > _ta_/taga_ "take". So literally something that is taken away.
>
>Which looks very like a calque of "excipere" to me.
Probably is -- via German _Ausnahme_, or more probably its
Low German counterpart.
/BP 8^)
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