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Re: Droppin' D's Revisited

From:Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>
Date:Thursday, November 23, 2000, 6:22
CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>It's used for some nationalities, e.g. francés, aragonés, leonés, >portugués, >inglés, irlandés, milanés, etc. I guess there are quite a few of those, >now >that I'm trying to list them, but I don't think it's a productive suffix. >And it is derived from Vulgar Latin /eze/ / Classical Latin /e:nsem/, same >as the French suffixes and <-ese> in English.
I was trying to figure out where that suffix comes from. Now I know, and i can incorporate it into Montreiano (-és).