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Re: Boy and Girl in Romance Languages



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, "B Garcia" <Montrei13@...> wrote:
>
> I was working on a few words of vocabulary in Montreiano and I hit a
> snag. See, the words for man and woman are easy: ôm and fema. 
However,
> looking at the words for young boy and young girl in different 
Romance
> languages poses problems, because I cannot find any common
> correspondences among them. What would a likely pan-Ibero-Romance
> equivalent be? Would it be something like nino/a?

You could chose to use diminutive suffix maybe: ômeto & femeta ?

Marc Pasquin