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Re: [romconlang] Re: New words based on Indo-European

On 2012-08-03 01:34, Deiniol Jones wrote:

As part of my insane drive towards verisimilitude, I also found myself
in need of a Proto-Albanian dictionary in order to provide Illyrian
substratum loans. Thus Dr. ceibra "mushroom" < PAlb *k�pur-. I've also
found myself creating unattested Gothic words from Proto-Germanic
originals. At times I suspect I'm getting somewhat carried away.


You are not alone.  I have sketched out a con-reconstruction of
Burgundian -- the Germanic language -- to flavor parts of the
Germanic adstratum of Rhodrese, kind of how Italian has both
Gothic and Longobard vocabulary.  As if anyone would notice...

/bpj