Re: Maps of Ill Bethisad.

Christophe Grandsire scripsit:

> For /amur/, as I said there is no problem. The spelling is <amour> and the
> pronunciation /a'mu/, but it was still /a'mur/ (flap r) until one century ago,
> so it shouldn't count.
Very well, then.  Brith. "amur" < Narb. "amour".

>As for /trubadur/, if I knew the origin of the word (from
> what does it derive?),
Oc "trobador" < OldOc "trobar" 'to compose' < VL *"tropare" <Lat "tropus"
'ornament, figure of speech, trope'.
>  I could say, but as I see it it is a little bit more
> So maybe other languages would have borrowed it before the
> fricativization...
The word was established *in English* by then, so it surely would have
spread to other Romance languages first.

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John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
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