Re: OT: French/English etymology question: "sauf"/"save"
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, December 6, 2003, 15:51 |
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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'.
/BP 8^)
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