Re: CHAT: Japanese English (was Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL)

At 08:56 22.3.2000 -0500, Carlos Thompson wrote:

>Jens Daniel Persson skrev:
>
> > >root sense.  In Future Swedish it had became a general person-denoting
> > >suffix, e.g. _hnakis_ 'speaker'.
> >
> > From where did the stem hnak come from?
>
>Snaka?
Yes, _snacka_ (_parlar_ in Spanish, _fablier_ (IIRC) in French :-)

>Is the [s]->[h] similar to Andaluzan/Caribbean/Rioplatence Spanish?
Nah, it is more like in Ancient Greek or Iranian, i.e. s > h everywhere,
except before stops or after r.  OTOH /C/ becomes /s/, so that _kärlek_ >
_seälök_.  It means something less sublime in Future Swedish, BTW!



/BP

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