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Re: [romanceconlang] About semantic shifts in Romance langs

En réponse à Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@hidden.email>:

 "work" in
> Narbonósc is 
> labour /la'bu/, but cannot mean "job". I still have to find the word for
> "job" 
> though :) .
> 

Well, of course I've forgotten again that intervocalic /b/ becomes a 
labiodental fricative in Narbonósc. "Work" in Narbonósc is lavour /la'vu/, 
not "labour" as I first said (well, it's supposed to be the same in French, but 
the two French cognates of Narbonósc, which are "labeur" and "labour", are 
borrowings - from Occitan I suppose -).

Christophe.

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