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--- 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