COMPARATIVE ROMANCE

  ENGLISH LATIN/VULGAR L. ITALIAN SPANISH ROMANIAN PORTUGUESE FRENCH BEECH fagus faggio haya fag faia hetre   *faine CEDAR cedrus cedro cedro cedru cedro cedre ELM ulmus olmo olmo ulm olmo, orme orme MAPLE acer acero arce artar acer erable OAK quercea quercia roble stejar carvalho chene PINE pin pino pino pin pinho pin POPLAR populus/ ploppus pioppo alamo plop choupo peuplier WILLOW salicem salice sauce salcie salgueiro saule   I created this list number 7 because I was curious to see how close these five languages might be to each other in written form. One tool that I would like to apply to this similarity/divergence is the consonant pattern exhibited among the words, by comparing how the consonants of the word match ...

  ENGLISH LATIN/VULGAR L. ITALIAN SPANISH ROMANIAN PORTUGUESE FRENCH AUTUMN autumnus autunno otono toamna outonno autumne FOG caecia/nebula/ brodicāre nebbia niebla ceata nevoa brouillard RAIN pluvia pioggia lluvia*                     pl changes to ll ploais chuva pluie SEASON stationem stagione estaciones anotimpuri estações , sazões saisons SNOW nivem neve nieve zapada neve neige SPRING primus ver primavera primavera primavara primavera printemps SUMMER veranum, aestes estate verano vara verao ete WINTER hibernum/invernum inverno invierno iarna inverno hiver   I created this list number 6 because I was curious to see how close these five languages might be to each other in written form. One tool...