Re: Ungrammaticalization?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, July 18, 1999, 23:48 |
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On Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:00:33 -0300 FFlores <fflores@...> writes:
>Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
>> Me and my brother use the fake Spanish verb _davenar_ for "to pray".
>'Davenar'??! What's that supposed to come from?
>[It reminded me of something else, which I didn't know. I just
>remembered: the planet Davenant, in the stories of Ursula K. LeGuin.]
>--Pablo Flores
It comes from the Yiddish verb _davnen_ (ix davn, du davnst...), through
the "Judeo-English religious-concepts vernacular" verb "to daven"
['dav@n].
-Stephen (Steg)
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