From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 01:37:28 EST
> Anton Sherwood scripsit:
>> What are other examples of Classical roots beside Vulgar roots?
John Cowan wrote:
> CAPUT vs. TESTA (Italian testa, French tete).
> Iberia stuck with CAPUT, I don't know what Romania did.
I meant specialized use within one language, as elsewhere in the
doublets thread. A better example: <capo> v <testa>, <chef> v <te^te>
and so on. (I guess Spanish <jefe> comes from French?)
-- Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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