Re: Etymology of "Macho"

G. Leo Sahakian wrote: 
"John A Rea" <j.rea2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup wrote:

John A Rea <j.rea2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> mælte sligt:



Sard /orikra/; for 'singulum' /singru/; for 'cingulam' 

/kingra/;

and for 'oculum' either /orka/ or /okra: actually, having 

spent

my formative years in the Cincinnati geosyncline area, I don't
care much for 'okra'.  En passant (an expression that is not
Sard) the people of that magic island have what the outlander
might call an /r/ - /l/ problem.  On the whole the word for
'more' is /prus/, and the word for 'beard' is /balba/

[...]

In the variety of Sard I was showing, /r/ and /l/ contrast on 

the

whole. Thust /kelu/ 'sky' and /karu/ 'dear; expensive'; and 

/luke/

'light' and /rosa/ 'rose'. However there are positional 

restrictions

that may apply.  In much of the north, after a consonant, only
/r/ occurs /kraru/ 'clear', and before a consonant, only /l/,
/polta/ 'door'.  Warning: Sard is a real language, and there is
considerable regional variation.  In some areas of the southeast
intervocalic /l/ is replaced by glottal stop as in /sa?e/; amd
in some of the south intervocalic /n/ is lost, with accompanying
vowel nasalization /ma~u/ 'hand' sounding much like Portuguese!



since you have
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
why don't you write ã instead of a~ ? this is a portuguese letter
and ISO-8859-1 has everything needed for pt., es., fr., de., is.,
sv., da., no., fi., etc.


I haven't the slightest idea what these preceding lines say:  in
case they have something to do with technicalities of computers,
I'll have to point out that the areas in which I have a modicum
of specialization are primarily phonology, especially some of the
Romance dialects in various time periods, and some areas of
literature including "Old Provencal" poetry, a bit of Medieval French lit.

In Sard, the liquids are mostly contrastive (with each other and
with other speech sounds), and only coalesce with each other, or
(one or both) with some other sound:  in some speech areas inter-
vocalic /t/ is flapped (as in most American English), and in
those positions doesn't contrast with intervocalic /r/.

Jack 

from your examples it appears that r and l are distinct phonemes
except in consonant clusters.

regards,
G. Leo Sahakian
--
Be kind to animals; they owe you nothing. Let them live in peace,
unless
your life is at risk.
http://www.pour-les-animaux.de/.


Enjoy

Jack
there



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