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Re: [romconlang] What would be your suggestions for a pure French word meaning 'fraternitée'?

(Sorry I can't type accent marks on my phone.) Could it be something
horrid like frerementa? Frere-ment-ta?

Adam

On 2/1/13, thomasruhm <thomas@hidden.email> wrote:
> A direct translation would start in 'frère', because it is the French word
> for brother, but '-nitée' might be a loan suffix. Else I would have chosen
> 'frèritée'. If Latin never had been a written language, romance languages
> would have much more such straight forward forms, like those I am looking
> for. They could also be used in far away countries, which early lost contact
> to the Roman Empire.
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