Re: Graavgaaln elements
| From: | FFlores <fflores@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, March 26, 1999, 1:11 |
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Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> wrote:
> FFlores wrote:
> > Also, _siangai_ is the scientific name of the pure element "carbon",
> > reborrowed from the protolanguage /@'SaNgaI/. "Coal" is the usually
> > derived form, _tha`ng_ /Ta:Ng/.
>
> Borrowed from the *proto*language? How would that happen? A
> protolanguage is one that is reconstructed, because it wasn't written
> down. Do you mean the ancestral language?
Yes, that's what I meant. I thought protolanguage, ancestral
language, mother tongue, etc. were all synonyms :-(