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Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dontsayaword@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good call. According to wiki, the French escala is descended from the Latin scala (ladder)

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I was curious. Apparently scale as in scale model also comes from the Latin scala. After learning that I went to OED to learn more…

    33 meanings. This is where my journey ends today. 🤣

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• b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yes. French actually is a 100% successor of the local vulgar latin. There’s no “native” French that’s somewhere in the bowels of the language; no celtic (“gallicus”) roots to be found there.

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Few Celtic roots*

    For instance char comes from the Celtic carros.

    Furthermore French has a strong Frankish influence, hence the name of the language and its relative distance from Italian Spanish or Portuguese which are more directly descended from Latin. But also many other influences. French has a surprising amount of Arabic vocabulary for example, and not just from recent immigration/colonisation.

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    • b_tr3e@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I thought the Arabic influence was all around the mediterranean? At least in architechture some mauric streak is omnipresent there,

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• DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      smale fischis

      I like your funny words, magic man

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    • Quokka@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “A frogge bith a smale beaste with foure leggys”

      I love how Middle English sounds so silly.

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      • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A small fish with red fins and bright silver scales.

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• julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  These comments are the reason why I like Lemmy / the Fediverse so much. Thank you!

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