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Re: Maps of Ill Bethisad.

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Monday, April 9, 2001, 16:55
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. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore --Douglas Hofstadter

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