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On 29 Sep 2009, at 06:51 , Capsicum wrote:
What are words in Aqilonian/Aqileian stressed like? Are they stressed on the first syllable like in very old Latin? I wonder how it sounds like.
Good question! Aquileian could have first syllable stress, though I think to keep things simple for myself (and to make it easier to do comparisons with real-world Romance languages) that later Kuriac (and perhaps later Ausonic) should just have normal Latin stress patterns.
I bought a Latin etymological dictionary some weeks ago. Do you have one too? I find it very usefull for conlanging.
I have a rather old and and out-of-date Latin etymological dictionary, but I often use Sihler to make comparisons between Latin and PIE. Much of the real work I have to do in Aquileian is creating new terms from PIE where Latin doesn't have something suitable (i.e. where Latin has a possible non-IE loan, or has borrowed from Greek).
Cheers, Carl -- Carl Edlund Anderson http://www.carlaz.com/