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Re: [romanceconlang] looking for etymological resources



Eamon,

Thanks for the quick a helpful reply.  See further comments below.

Adam

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From: "R. Eamon Graham" <robertg@hidden.email>
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 10:16:47 -0400

Coptic and Phoenician:
http://home.earthlink.net/~cjones3/files.htm


I found this on a few days ago and neither then nor now could I get the blooming things to open. Highly frustrating!!

Berber:
http://home.t-online.de/home/Petra.Bode/wort.htm
http://perso.club-internet.fr/tilit/lexiquetamazirtfrancais.html


These were ones I was aware of, too. Does anyone know of any sites on Berber langs which have been done in English? My French consists of making guesses from my pitiful Spanish and my German does not exist.

Punic:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/vtw/jongeling/latpun/LPintro.htm


This site is INCREDIBLE!!! This is useful to me beyond words! (Hmm, I need to make a word that means that and put it in Lrahran [an alien lang].) Where/how did you find this site? I have done multiple searches through google ,but never found anything like this site!!

Gothic: (Is this close enough for Vandal?)
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/wright.html
http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kurisuto/germanic/heyne.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~dla/gothic.html


It'll probably *have* to be since there doesn't seem to be a scrap of Vandal in existance beyond a few names like Gaiseric. Does anyone know if there has been any guess as to the relative positions of Vandal and Gothic on the Germanic tree? Are they both East Germanic or is it unknown/unknowable?

Sardinian:
http://sardegna.crs4.it/ditzonline/home.asp


Unless I'm missing something, from my glance over this site you need to already *know* the Sardinian word to use this dictionary. Okay. I looked again and found how to enter an English term and find the Sardinian. But I'm still not sure *which* Sardinian "dialect" I'm looking at here.

Calabrian:
http://www.platonet.it/termini/ind-fram.htm

Venetian:
http://www.veneto.org/language/index.asp

Provençal:
http://www.mnet.fr/sabaud/gb_index.html


All of these are interesting (especially the Veneto site) and any/all could be useful, but what I'm hoping to find is infor on the medeival dialects of these langs, circa 1200-1500.

> Also, does anyone have a favorite site for etymologies of > borrowed (ie non-latinate) vocabulary in any of the modern > romancelangs other thand French or Romanian?

I'd be interested in that too, but also, does anyone know some good
sites of non-Romance etymologies for French and Romanian?

Cheers!
Eamon


Thanks againg for the TON of helpful stuff!!

Adam

How DID you find that Punic site *scratching head*

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