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Re: [romconlang] Boy and Girl in Romance Languages



On 2007-10-17 B Garcia wrote:
> - Very young children: mocino/a, where -ino/a is the
>   preferred diminutive, like -ito/a is in Spanish in OTL.
>

In Rhodrese -ine, pl. -í is the preferred ending for
deriving words for female beings (since the Latin first and
second declension fall together in the plural. For
diminutives -(c)elle/-(c)il is the preferred one for
female beings, and -ett(e)/-et for things, probably -ot
for male beings. Augmentatives are probably mostly by
-au < -ONE, and pejoratives by -otx.  It's not fully
sorted out yet.

/BP 8^)>
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Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte se
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  "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
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  ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
  c'est qu'elles meurent."           (Victor Hugo)