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At 17:28 2001-01-14 -0600, Eric Christopherson wrote:
^ Is <pora> a conjunction of pol + a, or something separate? And is it pretty much like <para> in Spanish? (And where did <para> come from?)
According to Meyer-Lübke Sp. _para_ is a compounded form of PER. Unfortunately he does not say *what* PER was compounded with to arrive at _para_, but probably it was AD.
Catalan has _pera_, BTW.
/BP 8^)>
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