R: quo meridies ivit?

> Just a question about the fate of the Latin words for south, east, north
and
> west (meridies, oriens, septentriones, occidens). Where did they go? The
> modern romance names are:
>
> French: sud, est, nord, ouest
> Italian: sud, est, nord, ovest
Italian has even 'settentrione, meridione, oriente, occidente' and to say
northern, southern, eastern and western you have to say 'settentrionale,
meridionale, orientale, occidentale', or do as in a quite famous joke: 'il
nord ai nordici, il sud ai sudici' (nordici meaning 'northern ones', sudici
'grimy ones'!)

> PS, I recently updated the Kansú page:
www.geocites.com/yl_ruil/kansu.html.
> There's more background info and a short vocabulary list.
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> Lo deu nu preca êl'aisún necoui.  God prays at noone's altar.
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> Dan Jones: www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/
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