Re: [romconlang] re: Small sweet things

From: Peter Collier <petecollier@hidden.email>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:42:41 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: [romconlang] re: Small sweet things
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com

--- Daniel Prohaska <daniel@hidden.email> wrote:

>  
> 
> ï¿½n chafficleï¿½z ï¿½n Zinftetschetzï¿½  or sumat like
> thatï¿½
> 
> Dan
> 

Anyone have any details on when the word for coffee
was first attested in the various Romance languages?
Presumably about the same time as English (late 16th /
early 17th C), from Arabic via Turkish and Italian
(Venetian?).  

The modern word is <caf(f)e> in all dialects?

Pete

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