Re: [romanceconlang] Re: Carrajena numbers

From: Anton Sherwood (bronto@pobox.com)
Date: Mon May 12 2003 - 06:50:51 EST


The works of Rabelais(?) include <Quart Livre> and <Quint Livre>,
implying that early modern French had <quint> /kE~/ vs <cinq> /sE~/.

But perhaps <quart> and <quint> are learned forms rather than vernacular.

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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/


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