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Mark J. Reed scripsit: > The Iberian and Italian languages have "si[m]"; the French languages > have "oui[l]" or "oc". Where did these come from? Respectively from SIC 'thus', HOC ILLE 'this-that', HOC 'this'. Similarly, "rien" and "nada" are from different parts of the phrase NON REM NATAM 'no thing born' that came to be used for 'nothing' in VL. > Rumanian "da" is obviously a Slavic borrowing. Da. > Are there any other Romance words for "yes"? Not that I know of. European Portuguese can still say "yes" by repeating the main verb, a feature directly descended from Latin (and probably from PIE). -- Long-short-short, long-short-short / Dactyls in dimeter, Verse form with choriambs / (Masculine rhyme): jcowan@hidden.email One sentence (two stanzas) / Hexasyllabically http://www.reutershealth.com Challenges poets who / Don't have the time. --robison who's at texas dot net