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Re: [romconlang] VERSUS > verso = toward(s)




On 22 Jan 2007, at 06:31, Jacques Dehée wrote:
VERSUS [Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Latin, turned,
TOWARD, from past participle of vertere, to turn.]
Most Romance-like conlangs have "verso" = toward(s).

As a fan of Ibero-Romance, I sometimes derive prepositions for "towards" from Latin "facie ad".

Cheers,
Carl

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