From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 22:01:37 EST
--- Anton Sherwood skrzypszy:
> > 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?)
Wenedyk has:
- kap "head"
- szef "boss"
- cieszta "pot"
and derivates like "kaptan'", "kapital", etc.
Jan
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