• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    I don’t know Spanish but I wouldn’t have made the connection to French sans (the only Romance language in which I knew how to say “without”).

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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      10 days ago

      Not surprised - Latin “sine” without became a mess in the descendants, that’s why they don’t resemble each other much:

      • Portuguese (sem), Sardinian (sine) - plain inheritance
      • Spanish (sin) - likely re-borrowed, otherwise it would be *sen
      • Catalan (sense), Occitan (sense) and French (sans) - partially mixed “sine” with “absens” (absent, away, missing), so it got a random -s out of nowhere
      • Italian (senza) - similar to the above with “absentia” (absence, awayness). -tia → -za is regular in IT.