Dne torek 27. julija 2010 ob 17:28:51 je Arthur Reutenauer napisal(a): > > P.S. Both "homme" and "on" in French comes from the Latin "homo". > > Yes, and the derivation of “on” from “homme” was apparently inspired > by the Early German construct Mann -> man (that was maybe not spelt that > way at the time). Ironic, that now some advocate the use of “mensch” in > German to replace “man”...
History of languages is a funny thing, yeah... :] Cheers, Matija -- gsm: +386 41 849 552 www: http://matija.suklje.name xmpp: matija.suk...@gabbler.org ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
