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Re: what is "#" ?



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Anton Sherwood <bronto@p...> wrote:
> rodlox wrote:
> >  thanks for the link!
> >  btw, once I got there, I got a little confused (yes, again; 
> > sorry)...what is the # for? *curious*
> >  ie, incolo#  =  abide 
> 
> I didn't see any # in the Latin-English dictionary, which was the most 
> likely thing you meant by "the link".  But # usually means a 
> word-boundary; it's most often seen in the notation of sound-changes:
> 
> 	u > o / _#
> 
> means "/u/ becomes /o/ when it immediately precedes a word-boundary" 
> i.e. at the end of a word.
> 
> -- 
> Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

In the Massilia file I posted, -# means no ending
kal +-s =kals
kal +-# = kal