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Occitan Influences On Brithenig?

To: "Raymond A. Brown" <[email protected]>,Padraic Brown <[email protected]>,Andrew Smith <[email protected]>,Peter Skye <[email protected]>, John Schilke <[email protected]>
Subject: Occitan Influences On Brithenig?
From: John Cowan <[email protected]>
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 Proven�al) 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		[email protected]
	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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