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Re: [romconlang] Re: QUISQUE-UNUS

On Jan 29, 2007, at 10:24 AM, eamoniski wrote:


--- 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_..." 

I wonder if <aliquid unum> might have had something to do with it too.