Q: Latin loans into other languages

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 07:54:22 EDT, roger wright
<Roger.Wright at liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:

>     But sometimes a complete Latin form has indeed been borrowed whole
>in Romance; Spanish "radium" means radium, as in English, even though
>[-um] (or in practice [-un]) isn't a Spanish morpheme.

Actually, the chemical element is "radio" in Spanish.  I've never seen
"radium".

There's only a few Spanish words ending in -m (album, ultimatum).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl