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From: alderson@netcom.com (Richard M. Alderson III)
Subject: Re: difference between c and z in Spanish
In-Reply-To: sommar@enea.se's message of 24 Oct 1994 23:56:13 +0100
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In article <38he2d$dgn@gordon.enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
writes:

>(A "Swede" in Swedish in "svensk" where -sk is a general origin suffix.
>(Related to the Slavic -ski?))

Cf. German deutsch < *theutisko-.  The North Germanic languages didn't develop
a [S] from *sk:  cf. also English shirt vs. skirt <- Norse.
-- 
Rich Alderson   You know the sort of thing that you can find in any dictionary
                of a strange language, and which so excites the amateur philo-
                logists, itching to derive one tongue from another that they
                know better: a word that is nearly the same in form and meaning
                as the corresponding word in English, or Latin, or Hebrew, or
                what not.
                                                --J. R. R. Tolkien,
alderson@netcom.com                               _The Notion Club Papers_
