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I am curious how you check to be sure the words are not just from ancient latin?
by simion314 6y ago
I am curious how you check to be sure the words are not just from ancient latin?
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoBecause Italian shows different reflexes of Vulgar Latin phonemes then French does. So if a word is present in French with a phonetic outcome different from most words of Latin origin in French, then you can tell it is a later borrowing. Also sometimes you can trace the slow spread of an Italian word first to the medieval Occitan dialects spoken in southern France, and then only later into French spoken further north.
- simion314 6y agoThanks.