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Muke Tever scripsit: > Don't forget 4) words borrowed from other Romance languages, like Sp. > _pais_ "country" (= Fr. _pays_). Right. They often can be recognised by irregular sound correspondences: Sp. _jardin_ < Germ. _*garden_ could come only through Fr., because only there /ga/ > /dZa/. -- Yitzik