Re: Ungrammaticalization?

FFlores wrote:

> '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.]
"Davenen" is a Lithuanian borrowing into Yiddish (now with Yiddish
verb endings, of course), meaning "pray".  LeGuin's "Davenant",
on the other hand, is just French (according to her):  "d'avenant".

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