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On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:10 PM, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote: > ** > > > "I have looked at Mozarabic off and on, mainly to glean more Arabic loans. > I > haven't found any decent sources on Sardinian, old or otherwise, so if you > know of something do share! I did however find a mention of a few names for > herbs in Sardinian that are assumed to be loans form Punic and snatched > those up immediately!" > > There are short examples in Old Sardinian on the sardinian Wikipedia. I did > only take a rather quick look at them. They are mixed with Latin, as early > Romance texts often are. > > http://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limba_sarda > > Yes, short bits here and there is all I have turned up as well. > Do you have the arabic equivalents for the mozarabic words? We could use > them to find out if they changed in regular patterns. With Punic it may be > more difficult. > > I haven't found good sourses for Mozarabic either, just bits and pieces here and there. When I have found a scrap, I have looked for words that obviously weren't Latin (and have probably missed some) and tried, often unsuccessfully to track them down. More often I find things skimming my Spanish eytimologies. When ever I find an Arabic word that has survived in Spanish, it is likely (unless I laready have an established C-an word) to be borrowed into C-a. If it is listed as Mozarabic then I may look for the Classical Arabic, or I may use the Mozarabic as a base. I think I have marked those as VAr (Vulgar Arabic) in my Carrajina etymologies. > 'Incad' looks like 'indicat', but I don't know if 'indicat' could be > used in the text. > > 'E' was used sometimes before 'm', instead of 'a'. > > That didn't happen in Carrajina. A has been remarkably stable except in Latin diphthongs. > It is exciting for me that we can learn much together about that all. > > Thomas > Yes working together is fun and informative. Adam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]