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Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Wednesday, October 25, 2000, 22:11
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>I'm thinking of deriving the real >name of "Roumant" from gallicus: Gaulish, but I'm still not sure what it >would >give ("galhès"? "galhàs"? I want to find a nice equivalent of the >-ais/-ois >suffix of French. Or maybe I would make -icus -> -icue /ik/, thus >"galhicue". >I'm quite uncertain...).
This leads me to a question, is "Gallego" from gallicus?