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Occitan Influences On Brithenig?

To: "Raymond A. Brown" <raybrown@MACLINE.CO.UK>,Padraic Brown <pbrown@nova.umuc.edu>,Andrew Smith <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>,Peter Skye <skye@poconos.com>, John Schilke <schilkej@ohsu.edu>
Subject: Occitan Influences On Brithenig?
From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1998 11:58:36 -0400
Organization: Lojban Peripheral

So far, I can only find the word "amur", which spread from Occitan
(aka Provençal) into Brithenig in the sense "Courtly Love", or in
more modern contexts "illicit affair" or "partner in same".

The inherited word "afur" continues to mean "love" in a broader sense.
Note that in French, the borrowing "amour" completely displaced
the native "ameur" except in the sense "rut (in animals)".

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (FW 16.5)

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