From: Tristan McLeay (kesuari@yahoo.com.au)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 18:46:38 EST
Padraic Brown wrote:
>See previous answer and replace particulars as
>necessary.
>
>Why ask precisely the same question twice, and
>using the Welsh example both times?
>
I think he's trying to get us to do his linguistics homework for him. I
partially answered his question on Germanic languages this morning; I
think I regret it now. (Though if he thinks 'father' derives from Latin
_pater_, he'll be sorely dissapointed in his mark.) I suggest he visit a
library; they have some interesting books there.
Tristan.
>
>--- hotmyol <acz0605@cs.com> wrote:
>
>
>>I've been wondering, what is it about Italic
>>languages that sets them
>>apart from other languages? At first I thought
>>it had to do with the
>>complicated spelling/pronunciation, but then I
>>found that Welsh isn't
>>complicated in that form. If you do not
>>understand what I am
>>asking, here is an example:
>>
>>West Germanic languages:
>>Changes other indo-european words as such:
>>p,t,k to f,th,h; b, d, g
>>to p, t, k; bh, dh, gh to b,d,g. I.E. Latin
>>pater became English
>>father, L. mater=E. mother
>>
>>
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