Guess the Word in Romlangs

spanick · Post by **spanick** » 22 Oct 2018 17:04

Does <hian> mean ground?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 22 Oct 2018 23:52

spanick wrote: ↑22 Oct 2018 17:04 Does <hian> mean ground?

zyma · Post by **zyma** » 23 Oct 2018 03:13

GrandPiano wrote: ↑18 Oct 2018 22:44 A small hint, but maybe it will help: One of the words was not directly inherited from Latin.

Was it borrowed directly from Classical Latin (as opposed to being directly inherited), or was it not originally a Latin word at all?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 23 Oct 2018 03:29

shimobaatar wrote: ↑23 Oct 2018 03:13
GrandPiano wrote: ↑18 Oct 2018 22:44 A small hint, but maybe it will help: One of the words was not directly inherited from Latin.
Was it borrowed directly from Classical Latin (as opposed to being directly inherited), or was it not originally a Latin word at all?

Neither; it ultimately comes from a Latin word but it was borrowed from a language other than Latin.

zyma · Post by **zyma** » 23 Oct 2018 04:34

Is the language it was borrowed from Indo-European?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 23 Oct 2018 23:07

shimobaatar wrote: ↑23 Oct 2018 04:34 Is the language it was borrowed from Indo-European?

zyma · Post by **zyma** » 24 Oct 2018 01:15

Is this other language spoken east of the Italian peninsula?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 24 Oct 2018 01:42

shimobaatar wrote: ↑24 Oct 2018 01:15 Is this other language spoken east of the Italian peninsula?

There are speakers east of the Italian peninsula but its main speaking community is not.

zyma · Post by **zyma** » 24 Oct 2018 02:03

Is it Germanic?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 24 Oct 2018 02:06

shimobaatar wrote: ↑24 Oct 2018 02:03 Is it Germanic?

spanick · Post by **spanick** » 25 Oct 2018 17:07

Is it borrowed from another Romance language?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 25 Oct 2018 23:12

spanick wrote: ↑25 Oct 2018 17:07 Is it borrowed from another Romance language?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 29 Oct 2018 23:18

Do you guys need another hint?

spanick · Post by **spanick** » 30 Oct 2018 17:14

GrandPiano wrote: ↑29 Oct 2018 23:18 Do you guys need another hint?

Sure, because I'm all out of ideas.

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 30 Oct 2018 20:13

The same word was also borrowed into English.

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 31 Oct 2018 22:41

It may help to find out what language it’s borrowed from.

zyma · Post by **zyma** » 03 Nov 2018 02:23

Was it borrowed from one of the "main" Romance languages (Spanish, Portugueses, French, Italian, Romanian)?

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 03 Nov 2018 03:06

shimobaatar wrote: ↑03 Nov 2018 02:23 Was it borrowed from one of the "main" Romance languages (Spanish, Portugueses, French, Italian, Romanian)?

zyma · Post by **zyma** » 03 Nov 2018 04:08

Was it borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese?

(Haha, just realized I wrote "Portugueses" in my last post. Apparently my computer doesn't register that as a spelling error.)

GrandPiano · Post by **GrandPiano** » 03 Nov 2018 05:54

shimobaatar wrote: ↑03 Nov 2018 04:08 Was it borrowed from Spanish or Portuguese?

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