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--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Padraic Brown <elemtilas@...> wrote: > > --- habarakhe4 <Anthony.Miles@...> > wrote: > > > I was reading Tacitus, and I noted that under > > Nero, the months of April, May, and June were > > called Neroneus [ne:'ro:neus] or less likely > > [ne:ro:'ne:us], Germanicus [germa:'ni:kus], and > > > > Claudius [klaudius]. I wonder if the > > Fortunatians had kept this and what they would > > look like > > in 2006. Then I wondered about the languages of > > the rest of you. > > > > Neroneus > Nèron [n_dEron] > > Germanicus > Zarmanig [zarmanig] > > Claudius > Crauzh [kroZ] > > > > Should I keep these months in the FIU? > > What about y'all's versions? > > IB doesn't retain them, if they were ever > promulgated. The names obviously weren't taken > very seriously *here*. Which is precisely why I thought they ought to be considered seriously elsewhere in the Multiverse. The Fortunate Islands used the extra Claudian letters until the medieval Viking conquest. > > Claude, as a Dumnonian name, is Llouydde; the > Divine Claudius, the name of the emperor, is > Clauedio. The others don't survive, though I > suppose might be Neró and Hiermaneck or > Giermaneck. Chermá (descended from germanus) > survives as a word for close friend, relative or > fellow Dumnonian. > > Padraic. > > > She stuck the knife in the baby's head, > Weela weela wallia; > The more she stabbed it, the more it bled, > Down by the river Sallia. > > Three big knocks came a-knocking at the door, > Weela weela wallia; > Two policeman and a man, > Down by the river Sallia. > > -Childe Ballad #20, The Cruel Mother > > -- > > Ill Bethisad -- > <http://www.bethisad.com> > > > Come visit The World! -- > <http://www.geocities.com/hawessos/> > > > > > > > > . >