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En réponse à Adam Walker <dreamertwo@hidden.email>: > > I wonder how C-o will say "beautiful". Did *anyone* preserve pulcher? > Since pulcher was only used in the Classical Latin language, the only chance of preservation would come from Sardinian (which is known for being the only Romance language to descend from Classical Latin rather than Vulgar Latin - or more exactly to descend from a much older version of spoken Latin, nearer to the classical language, than the other Romance languages). So I've checked (at http://www.ditzionariu.org/), and it gives the following Sardinian words for "beautiful": |bédhu| and |elmósu| (obvious cognates of Spanish |bello| and |hermoso|, for who knows a bit about the twisted sound changes of Sardinian :)) ). So even Sardinian in this case didn't keep pulcher. I don't know for Rhaeto-Romance, but AFAIK no Romance language kept pulcher. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.