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Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Saturday, December 6, 2003, 16:31
Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 19:16 5.12.2003, Roger Mills wrote: > > >ObConlang: I've had trouble figuring out how to say "except" or "unless" > in > >Kash. Latin _nisi_ suggests a compd. of not+if. I could also use "provided > >that...not" I think. Any other suggestions? > > Swedish has _utom_ ["8wtom], which suggests itself > to be a frozen dativus loci of an adjective derived > from 'out'.
I thought you were of the /u\:/=[2^w:] (that's a long labialized mid-high front vowel) persuasion? My pronounciation is something like [u\:tOm]~[u\wtOm]. Andreas

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