Re: The Days Of The Week In Latin

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From: Peter Christian
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:06

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In-Reply-To: <1993Jan5.085724.4860@memstvx1.memst.edu> connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu

> The phonology of *all* of these, and of their
> German analogues, points to borrowing during the period of the Roman
> conquest.

Quite. And I don't suppose there were many Latin speakers left in
Britain by the time the Anglo-Saxons got there. Though I suppose
there's no reason in principle why some Latins loans into Celtic
couldn't have been taken over by the Anglo-Saxons - but it doesn't
seem very likely.

>  A later borrowing of _vinum_ would have yielded *_vine_,
> _strata_ > *_strate_, etc.

I didn't understand the phonology here, Leo. Do you mean they would
have been borrowed from some late Latin forms with reduced vowels?

Peter
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Peter Christian                         
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  Goldsmiths' College, London.            petex@cix.compulink.co.uk
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