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Re: QUISQUE-UNUS

--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "BP Jonsson" <bpj@...> wrote:
 
> Does anyone understand where the A comes from?
> May it be contamination with CATA-UNUS?
> 
> /Bendetx
>

Affirmative.  According to the Academie Française, there was a Popular
Latin form _cascunum_ "crossed from _quisque (unus)_ ... and _catunum_..."

Cheers,
Eamon