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From: Eric Christopherson <christopea28@hidden.email> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 15:04:31 -0500 On Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:05 pm, Adam Walker wrote:> Yeah, I think this is definitely what C-o is going to do. Yeah, I like the > "linda" ambiguity. It could make for some nice poetic twists since linda > *could* be the word for beautiful in C-o, too. Where does linda come from?> Beautiful seems to come from a lot of different sources in Romance. Lindo comes ultimately from Latin LEGITIMU- (accent on the antepenult). Phonologically, the development was like this: legitimu > leidmo/lidmo > limdo > lindo.Semantically, I'm not absolutely sure I remember this correctly, but I thinkthe word in its feminine forms came to be used of upper-class ladies, deriving from its sense of "proper." From there it eventually lost both its class distinction and its emphasis on propriety and shifted to mean simply pretty or beautiful.
That is really cool info.So where do French beau and Romanian frumosa come from? And Spanish bonita? And Sicilian grazziusu? What does Catalan have? Provencal? Standard Italian? Romansh? Protuguese?
I wonder how C-o will say "beautiful". Did *anyone* preserve pulcher? Adam So lift the cup of joy and take a big drink. In spite of it all it's a beautiful world. -------Suzanne Knutzen _________________________________________________________________MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx