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Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Thursday, October 26, 2000, 5:31
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>It's part of my goal! That's why I'm thinking of making it the principal >language of France, that's to say French, if French had been a langue d'oc >instead of a langue d'oc :) . Also I've been quite influenced from the
little I
>know about Occitan (and especially Provencal). 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...).
Isn't the common French surname/placename ending -(i)ac supposedly of Gaulish origin (via Latinate -iacus)? Galhac? (The wines could compete with Paulliac.) Or how about *-iscus? Galhisc? Galhesc? Could suggest _a little_ Germanic influence....... I'm enjoying Roumant, Reman, and Montreiano (a good name, that!). I've toyed with Romance conlangs-- it's really hard to come up with original sound changes! Equally hard to do Austronesian conlangs-- every reasonable sound change you can think of has happened somewhere in the AN world.