From: Adam Walker (dreamertwo@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 13:26:17 EST
>From: Eric Christopherson <christopea28@uww.edu>
>Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:04:31 -0500
>
>On Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:05 pm, Adam Walker wrote:
> > Yeah, I think this is definitely what C-o is going to do. Yeah, I like
>the
> > "linda" ambiguity. It could make for some nice poetic twists since
>linda
> > *could* be the word for beautiful in C-o, too. Where does linda come
>from?
> > Beautiful seems to come from a lot of different sources in Romance.
>
>Lindo comes ultimately from Latin LEGITIMU- (accent on the antepenult).
>Phonologically, the development was like this:
>
>legitimu > leidmo/lidmo > limdo > lindo.
>
>Semantically, I'm not absolutely sure I remember this correctly, but I
>think
>the word in its feminine forms came to be used of upper-class ladies,
>deriving from its sense of "proper." From there it eventually lost both its
>class distinction and its emphasis on propriety and shifted to mean simply
>pretty or beautiful.
>
That is really cool info.
So where do French beau and Romanian frumosa come from? And Spanish bonita?
And Sicilian grazziusu? What does Catalan have? Provencal? Standard
Italian? Romansh? Protuguese?
I wonder how C-o will say "beautiful". Did *anyone* preserve pulcher?
Adam
So lift the cup of joy and take a big drink.
In spite of it all it's a beautiful world.
-------Suzanne Knutzen
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