Re: [romanceconlang] About semantic shifts in Romance langs

From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Sun Jan 21 2001 - 19:21:47 EST

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En rÃ©ponse Ã Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@free.fr>:

"work" in
> NarbonÃ³sc is
> labour /la'bu/, but cannot mean "job". I still have to find the word for
> "job"
> though :) .
>

Well, of course I've forgotten again that intervocalic /b/ becomes a
labiodental fricative in NarbonÃ³sc. "Work" in NarbonÃ³sc is lavour /la'vu/,
not "labour" as I first said (well, it's supposed to be the same in French, but
the two French cognates of NarbonÃ³sc, which are "labeur" and "labour", are
borrowings - from Occitan I suppose -).

Christophe.

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