Re: "royaume" vs. "realm"? (was: French for "Kingdom")
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 24, 1998, 17:02 |
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HS Brandsma wrote:
> > -Ness is borrowed?! Where'd it come from?
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> You're right: -ness is Germanic.
You're both right, of course: I don't know why I thought -ness was
of Romance origin; probably mental interference from the Romance
feminizing suffix "-ess".
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn.
You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn.
Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)