Re: NATLANG: What's the sound of Cast ilian <s>?

Quoting Roger Mills <romilly@...>:


> "Except" again!! does _med undantag för_ mean lit. 'with (the) exception of'
> ??  Would one use "undantag" in e.g. "that's an exception to the rules"?
> undantag = NEG-(something)? I'm guessing Latin  excipio, -ere, exceptum
> meant 'take away, take out'.
Yep, _med undantag för_ means literally "with exception for", and "that's an
exception to the rules" could be translated _det är ett undantag från
reglerna_.

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.

                                                      Andreas

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